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Anita Catarina Malfatti (December 2, 1889 – November 6, 1964) is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil. Her solo exhibition in Sao Paulo, from 1917–1918, was controversial at the time, and her expressionist style and subject were revolutionary for the complacently old-fashioned art expectations of Brazilians who were ...
Anita Catarina Malfatti is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil. Her solo exhibition in Sao Paulo, from 1917–1918, was controversial at the time, and her expressionist style and subject were revolutionary for the complacently old-fashioned art expectations of Brazilians who were searching for a national identity in art, but ...
Sem título (1955) by Anita Malfatti Museu Nacional da República. The third phase encompasses works carried out from the 1930s to the 1940s until the end of her career, when the artist dedicated herself to portraying family, friends and members of the elite, in addition to popular themes. Inland landscapes and popular themes are also presented.
Anita Malfatti is considered a ground-breaking artist of modernism in Brazil. During her early artistic training in Berlin and New York, Anita Malfatti produced Expressionist portraits in which she captured the psychological characteristics of her models. In A mulher de cabelos verdes (1915), she constructs the figure by alternating patches of ...
Anita Malfatti la famosa pintora brasileña, es considerada como la introductora de las vanguardias europeas y estadounidenses en América Latina y exactamente en Brasil.Fue una artista y pintora, que le agregó a estos estilos su cultural local, y rompió los planteamientos artísticos establecidos hasta ese momento en el arte de su época.
Anita Malfatti is considered the pioneer of the modernist movement in Brazil. She perfected her craft from 1910 to 1914, studying art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where she was influenced by the expressionist leanings of her teachers, especially Ernst Bischoff-Culm and Lovis Corinth. She took up metal engraving and focused ...
The strokes of Anita Malfatti’s illustrations are superlatives. They demonstrate, when imagistically composing the Indian Iracema, for example, the expressionist cubism that fostered her as an artist of Modernism in Brazil.
