Anita - A little about her

Anita Malfatti is consider the first modernism’s representative in Brazil. She was born in December of 1889 in São Paulo and she died when she was 74, in November of 1964. When she was 19 years old, Anita graduated teacher and in 1910, she moved to Berlim, where, in the next year, she started to study at royal academy of beauty arts. In an exposition, she met a “rebel” type of art whose the rules were not imposed for the academicism of the epoch.
In 1914, after go back to Brazil, Anita Malfatti traveled to USA and studied at Art Students League, in this period Anita’s art takes over a single shine.
Consecrated, Anita returns to Brazil and, sure of her art, did in 1917, a solo exposition. The Anita Malfatti’s art concepts represented something new to the standards of the epoch and the "new", generally scares, so this explains the criticism that she faced. Anita’s idea of art did not look like the Academy’s one.
Her concept of art came to mess what was accept. She thought that the ugly, such as the beautiful, takes part of the reality and must be retracted by the artists. because of those things, Her modern paintings had a lot of reasons to do not be accepts.
The society’s representatives considered the exhibition a scandal, and it brought disastrous consequences for the Anita Malfatti’s artistic future. Surrounded of criticism from the people whose she thought that were friends, Anita, shy, fell into depression and decreased in her artistic production. Monteiro Lobato showed his displeasure with destructive criticisms. Even emphasizing the modernism in his criticisms, Monteiro Lobato smote anita and not the new artistic style, because she could not separate of her art.
Later Anita met Tarsila do Amaral and they became great friends. Anita Malfatti took part in the Modern Art Week in 1922 and, even having not left the art, the "damages" caused by exposure 1917 was reflected throughout her life.