Projeto Portinari

Getting acquainted with Portinari; the inexpressiveness of modernist painting ;Tarsila do Amaral; comparing Oswald to Mário de Andrade; his relationship with Capanema; the intellectuals of Minas Gerais State in the '30s; background and connections of the Mello Franco family; the participation of politicians from Rio Grande do Sul State in Vargas' government divide Minas Gerais politicians; political divergency and personal understanding with Capanema; the Brazilian economic cycles; the suggestions of the themes for the Ministério da Educação e Saúde/MES murals; resentment and isolation traits in Portinari's personality; his experiences at the Universidade do Distrito Federal/UDF; Cecília Meirelles; Afonso Pena; his option for Banco do Brasil; Alceu Amoroso Lima; Heloísa Torres; the Palácio da Cultura building expresses the creativity of an entire generation; Capanema's reaction to Celso Antônio's nude sculpture for the MES; the intellectual Capanema; the intellectual output and the authoritarian governments; Capanema's self-government managing culture during the Estado Novo; memories of the '30 and '32 Revolutions; the Mello Francos break with President Getúlio Vargas; Portinari hailed as the greatest Brazilian artist; Oswald de Andrade; Mário Pedrosa; the argument with the communists during the congress of the Associação Brasileira de Imprensa/ABI.