Flávio de Carvalho and the formation of an artistic itinerary in São Paulo: avant-garde experiences in modernism in São Paulo (1930-1939)

Author(s)

Daniel Alves Azevedo

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Assis. 2017-10-11.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis
• Defense date: 2017-08-11
• Advisor: Carlos Eduardo Jordão Machado

Abstract

The Cultural development in São Paulo during the 1920s brought to the local society a fruitful contact with artists and intellectuals who sought new horizons for national art. Since the Modern Art Week in 1922, a modernist language gained space in the brazilian cultural scene, reaching the 1930s with vitality for a rich sociocultural dialogue. This essay was intended to investigate the performance of the modernist Flávio de Carvalho (1899-1973) in this period, seeking to identify its centrality and relevance for the development of modernism in São Paulo. To achieve this goal, we seek to map the main areas of activity promoted by Flávio, their intellectual positioning in favor of the development of modern art in the country and his controversial experiences and artistic interventions with the society of the epoch. Our analyses sought to reflect on the impact of their actions and how their intellectual production spread socially. His cultural initiatives, highlighted by the periodic press of the 1930s, were also evaluated with the aim of understanding the reception of ideas and modernist aesthetics debated with other artists and intellectuals. The main objective of the study was to analyze historically the cultural relevance of Flávio to the city of São Paulo and its consequent importance to the history of the Brazilian modernist movement. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/10438-6 - The cultural trajectory of Flávio de Carvalho during the 1930s: vanguard experiences of Modernism in São Paulo (1931-1939)
• Grantee: Daniel Alves Azevedo
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master