Part I: Beginning the Pursuit
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To help you navigate his work, we invite you to answer the following questions as you go along.
How was the artistic status quo in Sao Paulo when Anita started to study art?
Who were her first teachers in Sao Paulo, and how do you think it affected her work?
What did she discover in Germany that was different to her initial education in Brazil?
How did she change her relationship with colour?
How did she validate her production in Europe during her first trip?
Why do you think she organised her first exhibition in 1914 in such a way?
How do you think affected her artistic career acting as a curator, producer and organiser during her first exhibition?
Who was Freitas Valle, and how did he affect her process?
Why did she feel she had to travel again?
How was it different from what she learned in Germany, the artistic status quo in Brazil?
Who did she meet in New York that would allow her to regain her freedom?
Why was her relationship with death so important?
How do you think it affected Malfatti, the friends she met in New York?
How did she change her relationship to form and colour in New York?
How is the composition structured in the man of 7 colours?
How did Anita view her models in New York?