Abstract
This year, Brazil celebrates two important, interrelated anniversaries. Two centuries ago, it gained independence from Portugal, and one hundred years ago, between February 11 and 18, 1922, the so-called Week of Modern Art (Semana de Arte Moderna) took place in São Paulo.
This cultural festival was initially conceived as an event directed precisely against the official pompous celebrations of the anniversary of independence, and its form was mainly due to the Group of Five (Grupo dos Cinco), an avant-garde artistic association, whose members were the writers Oswald de Andrade and Mário de Andrade and the artist Tarsila do Amaral .