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3 Modern Art Week and the Rise of

Brazilian Modernism
New Currents of Modernism

The photo below shows some of the artists and sponsors of Modern Art Week in 1922. Writer and critic
Mário de Andrade, one of the founders of the modernist movement, is the third man from the left, and
Oswald de Andrade, another member of the movement (but no relation), sits on the floor in front.

— “Grupo da Semana de 22,” from the photo album of Tarsila do Amaral, c. 1922. From Caixa
Modernista, Edusp / Editoria UFMG / Imprensa Oficial, São Paulo, 2003.

The “Grupo dos Cinco” [Group of Five] was the name for a collection of five modernists who were
influential in the early founding of the movement and sought to promote a uniquely Brazilian culture that
emphasized indigenous and non-European elements.

Though its members collaborated in forming the movement and organizing Modern Art Week, the group
did not remain a unified source of modernist output throughout the 1920s. Groups split off due to
divergent interests or disagreements over which tradition should inform the movement, while personal
disputes?like a feud between Mario de Andrade and Oswald de Andrade after the latter called the former
effeminate in writing?further hurt the unity of the Grup

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