A landmark exhibition, Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, has opened at London’s Royal Academy, showcasing 134 works from ten pivotal Brazilian artists, many displayed in the UK for the first time.
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00:00So this exhibition explores a period of real flourishing of the arts in Brazil, running
00:23from roughly the 1910s to the 1970s.
00:27It was a period when artists, writers, thinkers were all wanting to really shape the direction
00:32of their young, ambitious country.
00:35And so in this exhibition, we've taken ten of the artists who are part of this movement
00:40that's now known as Brazilian Modernism, and we've dedicated a space to each of these artists
00:45so that our visitors can come and really explore in depth each artist's individual approach
00:50towards modernism.
00:57We have artists of Afro-Brazilian descent and indigenous descent, and so the artists
01:09themselves reflect the diversity of Brazil, but they also were reflecting that diversity
01:14in their art.
01:15There was, for a lot of these artists, being able to capture what made Brazil unique was
01:20a key thing that drove them.