Cover of exhibition program for the Week of Modern Art, by Di Cavalcanti.

Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Melo (September 6, 1897–October 26, 1976), called Di Cavalcanti, was a Brazilian painter. He was a prominent member of Brazil's Generation of 1922. Image File history File links Semana_de_Arte_Moderna. ... Image File history File links Semana_de_Arte_Moderna. ... September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ...

Born in Rio di Janeiro, Di Cavalcanti moved to São Paulo in 1917. At that time, São Paulo was a more industrial and less artistic city than Rio de Janeiro, but Di Cavalcanti became involved with a group of young artists and intellectuals, based in São Paulo, who would later be the chief participants in Brazilian Modernism. The movement began in earnest in 1922, when Di Cavalcanti, along with Mário de Andrade and his Group of Five, organized the Week of Modern Art, a celebration of the São Paulo modernist movement. Ipanema beach Cristo Redentor A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ... São Paulo (the Portuguese name of Saint Paul) is the capital of the state of São Paulo in southeastern Brazil. ... Modernism is a cultural movement that generally includes progressive art and architecture, music and literature which emerged in the decades before 1914, as artists rebelled against late 19th century academic and historicist traditions. ... Painting of Mário de Andrade (1927) by Lasar Segall, a Lithuanian painter in Brazil whom Andrade befriended; Andrade wrote a book about him in 1935. ... Cover of an exhibition catalog from the Semana de Arte Moderna, 1922. ...

Di Cavalcanti embodies the tendency of Brazilian modernists to be pulled in two directions: his subject matter consists of particularly Brazilian themes (mostly mulatto women), but his chief artistic influences are the European modernists and Pablo Picasso most of all. He experienced the European movement first-hand while living in Paris and Montparnasse between 1923 and 1925. Representation of Mulatos during the Latin American colonial period. ... Young Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Montparnasse Tower, which at 209m was the tallest building in Western Europe when it was built. ...

Upon his return to Brazil, Di Cavalcanti took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, and lived alternately or simultaneously there and in São Paulo for the rest of his life. By the 1950s, Di Cavalcanti was widely considered one of the most important Brazilian artists, and was featured prominently in the first two São Paulo Biennial exhibitions, in 1951 and 1953. São Paulo Biennial: Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo The São Paulo Biennial was founded in 1951 upon the initiative of industrialist Francisco (Ciccillo) Matarazzo Sobrinho (1898-1977). ...

External links

• Summation of Di Cavalcanti's Career in English, from the Ministério das Relaçōes Exteriores, Brazil.
• Complete chronology (in Portuguese).