Di Cavalvanti, Emiliano - Mulata
Di Cavalvanti, Emiliano - Mulata - Oil painting over canvas.
Dimensions - 29,1 in x 23,2 in (74 cm x 59 cm)
Di Cavalcanti
The painter, illustrator, caricaturist, engraver, muralist, draftsman, journalist, writer and set designer Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque e Melo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, in 1897 and died in the same city in 1976. He started his artistic career as caricaturist and illustrator, publishing his first caricature in 1914 in Fon-Fon magazine. In 1917, he lived in São Paulo, where he attended the Law course at Largo São Francisco and the studio of Georg Elpons (1865 - 1939). He lived with artists and intellectuals from São Paulo such as Oswald de Andrade (1890 - 1954) and Mário de Andrade (1893 - 1945), Guilherme de Almeida (1890 - 1969), among others. In 1921, he illustrated "The hanged ballad.", by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), and published the album "Fantoches da Meia-Noite", published by Monteiro Lobato (1882 - 1948). He was the creator and main organizer of the 1922 Modern Art Week, in which he exhibited 12 works. In 1923, he made his first trip to France, where he served as correspondent for the newspaper "Correio da Manhã". In Paris, he attended the Ranson Academy, installed a studio and met avant-garde European artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955), Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) and Blaise Cendrars (1887 - 1961). He returned to São Paulo in 1926 and worked as a journalist and illustrator for the newspaper "Diário da Noite". His stay in Paris marked a new direction in his work. Reconciling the influence of the European avant-garde with the formulation of its own language, it adopted a nationalist theme and was social issue concerned. In 1928, he joined the Communist Party of Brazil. In 1931, he participated in the Revolutionary Salon and, in the following year, founded, in São Paulo, with Flávio de Carvalho (1899 - 1973), Antonio Gomide (1895 - 1967) and Carlos Prado (1908 - 1992), the Clube dos Artistas Modernos .
In 1933, he published the álbum "The Brazilian Reality", a satire on militarism at the time. In 1938 he traveled to Paris, where he worked on the radio "Diffusion Française", on the Paris Mondial broadcasts. He returned to Brazil in 1940, worked as an illustrator and published poems and travel memories. In 1972, his album 7 Xilogravuras by Emiliano Di Cavalcanti was published by Editora Chile.