The foreign art in Brazil: expositions of art in the context of World War II

Abstract

The issue of this paper is the relationship between foreign art and national art in Brazil. The focus is on the art exhibitions organized by different countries in the political context of the Second World War. In this sense, the starting point is the characterization of art and exhibitions as a diplomacy instrument, promoting different art tendencies in Brazil. The political concurrence informed plastic arts variations. At the end, the analysis highlights how the reception of European art in Brazil has driven to a nationalizing appropriation of the foreign artistic forms. Thus, the proposal consists in a research about the senses of foreign art in Brazil.