Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
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Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Melo (September 6, 1897–October 26, 1976), known as Di Cavalcanti, was a Brazilian painter. He was a prominent member of Brazil's Generation of 1922.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Di Cavalcanti moved to São Paulo in 1917. At that time, São Paulo was a more industrial and less artistic city than Rio de Janeiro, but Di Cavalcanti became involved with a group of young artists and intellectuals, based in São Paulo, who would later be the chief participants in Brazilian Modernism. The movement began early in 1922, when Di Cavalcanti, along with Mário de Andrade and his Group of Five, organized the Week of Modern Art, a celebration of the São Paulo modernist movement.
Di Cavalcanti embodies the tendency of Brazilian modernists to be pulled in two directions: his subject matter consists of particularly Brazilian themes (mostly mulatto women), but his chief artistic influences are the European modernists and Pablo Picasso most of all. He experienced the European movement first-hand while living in Paris and Montparnasse between 1923 and 1925.
Upon his return to Brazil, Di Cavalcanti took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, and lived alternately or simultaneously there and in São Paulo for the rest of his life. By the 1950s, Di Cavalcanti was widely considered one of the most important Brazilian artists, and was featured prominently in the first two São Paulo Biennial exhibitions, in 1951 and 1953.
[edit] External links
- Summation of Di Cavalcanti's Career in English, from the Ministério das Relaçōes Exteriores, Brazil.
- Complete chronology (in Portuguese).
- Obras Compra e Venda (in Portuguese).
