
Tarsila Popular
MASP, São Paulo On until 28th July 2019 (FREE on Tuesdays) I wish I’d met Tarsila. I wish I’d heard her voice when she uttered so many times that she wanted to paint her country. I went into Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) with an ambiguous perception about Tarsila. I questioned her capability – not technical but emotional – to “paint her country”. Three hours later (half of that queueing) I came out with a changed mind. Tarsila do Amaral was born on a f