Abstract
This year, Brazil commemorates two important anniversaries: two hundred years ago, it gained independence from Portugal, and between February 11 and 18, 1922, the so-called Week of Modern Art (Samana da Arte Moderna) took place in São Paulo. This artistic-cultural-political festival was one of the first and at the same time the most fundamental avant-garde conquests in the country.
During it, the "first generation of modernists" was formed, whose activity was only interrupted by the onset of the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas in 1930.