Literature and the Visual Arts: The Brazilian Roaring Twenties, by Jorge Schwartz
Literature and the Visual Arts: The Brazilian Roaring Twenties, by Jorge Schwartz
Literature and the Visual Arts: The Brazilian Roaring Twenties, by Jorge Schwartz
Literature and the Visual Arts: The Brazilian Roaring Twenties, by Jorge Schwartz
Approximately 9 to 18 million Africans were taken to the New World.
The solidity of blackness is amplified by means of the monumental and cylindrical volumes of the neck, arms and legs, as well as the disproportionate and single gigantic breast hanging at forefront of the canvas.
We know that this period of intense chromatism in Segall will not last, and that the 20s weren't exclusively devoted to Black themes either, but without doubt this is Segall's most fruitful period in the paintings, engravings and drawings devoted to this theme.