Editing Brazil (section)

=== Visual arts ===
{{Main|Brazilian painting}}
[[File:Mural painting "Entry into the Forest" by Candido Portinari, on the vestibule wall of the Hispanic Reading room, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C LCCN2011631432.tif|thumb|''Entry in the Forest'' mural at the [[Thomas Jefferson Building]] by [[Candido Portinari]], one of the most important [[Brazilian painting|Brazilian painters]]]]

Brazilian painting emerged in the late 16th century,<ref>Louzada, Maria Alice & Louzada, Julio. [http://www.juliolouzada.com.br/primeirosmomentos.asp ''Os Primeiros Momentos da Arte Brasileira''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706153216/http://www.juliolouzada.com.br/primeirosmomentos.asp |date=6 July 2011 }}. Júlio Louzada Artes Plásticas Brasil. Acesso 5 out 2010</ref> influenced by [[Baroque]], [[Rococo]], [[Neoclassicism]], [[Romanticism]], [[Realism (arts)|Realism]], [[Modernism]], [[Expressionism]], [[Surrealism]], [[Cubism]] and [[Abstract art|Abstracionism]] making it a major [[Style (visual arts)|art style]] called [[Brazilian academic art]].<ref>Leite, José Roberto Teixeira & Lemos, Carlos A.C. ''Os Primeiros Cem Anos'', in Civita, Victor. ''Arte no Brasil''. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1979</ref><ref name="Biscardi" />

The [[Missão Artística Francesa|French Artistic Mission]] arrived in Brazil in 1816 proposing the creation of an art academy modeled after the respected Académie des Beaux-Arts, with graduation courses both for artists and craftsmen for activities such as modeling, decorating, carpentry and others and bringing artists such as [[Jean-Baptiste Debret]].<ref name="Biscardi">{{harvnb|Biscardi|Rocha|2006}}</ref>

Upon the creation of the [[Academia Imperial de Belas Artes|Imperial Academy of Fine Arts]], new artistic movements spread across the country during the 19th century and later the event called [[Modern Art Week]] broke with academic tradition in 1922 and started a nationalist trend which was influenced by modernist arts.<ref name="Amaral">{{Cite journal |last1=Amaral |first1=Aracy |last2=Kim Mrazek Hastings |year=1995 |title=Stages in the Formation of Brazil's Cultural Profile |journal=Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts |volume=21 |pages=9–25 |doi=10.2307/1504129 |jstor=1504129}}</ref>

Among the best-known Brazilian painters are [[Ricardo do Pilar]] and [[Manuel da Costa Ataíde]] (baroque and rococo), [[Victor Meirelles]], [[Pedro Américo]] and [[José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior|Almeida Júnior]] (romanticism and realism), [[Anita Malfatti]], [[Ismael Nery]], [[Lasar Segall]], [[Emiliano di Cavalcanti]], [[Vicente do Rego Monteiro]], and [[Tarsila do Amaral]] (expressionism, surrealism and cubism), [[Aldo Bonadei]], [[José Pancetti]] and [[Cândido Portinari]] (modernism).<ref>Sevcenko, Nicolau. Pindorama revisitada: cultura e sociedade em tempos de virada. Série Brasil cidadão. Editora Peirópolis, 2000. pp. 39–47</ref>