The development of modernist aesthetics in Mário de Andrade

Abstract

Th is article is part of the research theme of the master’s thesis. The urban landscape of the city of São Paulo: a poetic of the drizzle under the eyes of Mário de Andrade. The emergence of Modernist aesthetics in Mário de Andrade underlines a period marked by the movement of artistic and literary aesthetic renewal in Brazil, which establishes and crowns art and literature, with profound modifi cations tied to social and political organisms in the country. Mário de Andrade, the modernist, harlequin and lyricist poet, engaged in the European avant-garde through literature and, together with other important names of artistic veils, inaugurates the revolution in Brazilian art with the Modern Art Week in February 1922 in the city from Sao Paulo. This research studies the representation of the city of São Paulo in the poetic and geographical bias, when it correlates the life and death of the poet to the process of urbanization of the city of São Paulo. This context is revealed through the poems that perpetuate the visceral love between the city and Mario, which elects it as the main theme. The curtains open and, according to the poet’s imagery, the reading of the space arrangement of the city is completed.