Mário Pedrosa’s Turn Point: From the Good Neighbour Policy in the United States to the Brazilian Modern Project (1938–1951)
Mário Pedrosa’s Turn Point: From the Good Neighbour Policy in the United States to the Brazilian Modern Project (1938–1951)

Summary/Abstract: Mário Pedrosa contributed in a decisive way to the formation and development ofBrazilian politics and art in the 20th century. Pedrosa traveled to the United States and startedto live in New York at the end of 1938. In the field of the arts, he took a position on the debatebetween Independent Revolutionary Art and Instrumentalized Art. In the essay “Portinari –from Brodósqui to the murals in Washington” (1942), Pedrosa overcomes the defense of art asa revolutionary weapon, which was his position at the conference on the German artist KätheKollwitz, presented at the Club of Modern Artists, in Brazil in 1933. From 1942, he approachedthe position of independence of art, in relation to the government’s instrumentation policies.

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