Tarsila Do Amaral: The Moon: MoMA One on One Series

By: Beverly Adams

How Tarsila do Amaral forged the beginnings of a unique modernist vocabulary in Brazil

Tarsila do Amaral's (1886-1973) painting The Moon (1928), a highly stylized, desolate nocturne, grew from the artist's desire to create a new national form of expression for Brazil. In The Moon and other paintings of the late 1920s, do Amaral successfully "cannibalized" modern European painting and Brazilian popular culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633451356
• ISBN13: 9781633451353
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.2" x 9.0"