Feast of Devouring – from the Yellow Man to Abaporu

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the Modern Art Week of 1922 under a time frame that begins in 1917, with the Exhibition of Modern Painting, by Anita Malfatti, and ends at the end of the 1920s, with Antropofagia, by Oswald de Andrade. .
Following the exchanges and influences established between the works and writings of four of the main artists of the period – Anita, Oswald, Mário de Andrade and Tarsila do Amaral –, it is intended to highlight here the intense circuit of crossed relationships that, while inspiring them in the creation of of some of the most important works of modernism in the country, he consumed them in mutual swallowing to the point of anthropophagy.