Amaral do Amaral was born in the town of Capivari, inside the state of Sao Paulo in 1886. In 1916 he began his art studies in San Pablo and then in 1920, continued in Paris, where he took classes with the most emblematic French Cubist painter Andre Lhote, Fernand Leger and Albert Gleizes. It was in Paris, precisely, where he held his first solo exhibition 1926. Under of that sample had one of his most characteristic works called The Black (1923). In the same year he wrote a letter to his family in which told them .........
"I feel even more Brazilian. I'm going to be a painter of my country. How grateful I am for having spent my childhood on the farm!
The memories of those times have become very dear to me. I, art, being the little girl in Sao Bernardo field, playing with straw dolls, and in the last frame I'm working on ... I do not think that this negative trend is seen here. On the contrary. The here want is to have everyone bring the contribution of their own country. This explains the success of Russian ballet, Japanese graphic art and black music. Paris had had enough art Parisian "
In Paris he lived and observed all the features of modernity and created the Movement cannibals, whose central principle was that the Brazilian artists should devour foreign influences, digest them carefully and turn them into something new. The works of this period is characterized by exaggeration of anatomical forms and its surrealistic.
From the 30's and after a trip to Moscow Tarsila painting is influenced by socialist realism and works are born as second class workers charged social and political commitment.
. In the 50's returns to the theme "pau brasil"-poor Brazil. Participates in 1951 I Bienal de Sao Paulo. In 1963 he dedicated a special room in the VII Bienal de Sao Paulo and the following year has a special appearance at the XXXII Venice Biennale.
Tarsila do Amaral died in Sao Paulo on January 17, 1973.
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