Mulheres com Frutas - 1932
Autorretrato - 1943
Emiliano Di Cavalcanti was born on 1897, 6th September, in Rio de Janeiro. His father died and he started to work for the Fon-Fon magazine. He studied Law. In 1917 he went to São Paulo, where he started to paint. In 1921 he married Maria. He met and got along weel with Mario and Oswald de Andrade.
And, in 1922, between 11th and 18th February, he organized with his friends a Modern Art Week, in the Theater on São Paulo. He went to Europe just in 1923 and stayed there until 1925. He espoxed his works in many cities like Londres, Berilm, Bruxelas, Amsterdan and Paris. He came back to Brazil in 1926 and came in to Comunist Faction. In other visit to Paris he created the decoration for the Theater Joao Caetano, at Rio de Janeiro.
About the year 1930, he started to participate at national and international group expositions, like the Art Center in New York. In 1932 he found, in São Paulo, the Modern Artists Club. He was a prisioner during the Paulist Revolution.
He married again, now with the painter Noêmia Mourão. They went to Paris. When they came back, he was arrested again. Then, they went to Paris again, until 1940. In 1937, he got a gold medal, because he decorated the Pavilion for the Fancro-Brasilian Company in Paris.
In Paris the Second Star World was happenning, so they came back to São Paulo. He lost about fourty paints that didn't come back from Europe. He traveled to Uruguai and Argentina, he showed in Buenos Aires. He met Zuíla, his favorite model. He participated of the I Bienal in São Paulo. He was a better painter in the II Bienal in São Paulo.
In 1956 he participated of the Bienal in Veneza and got the permium of I of Showing International of Art Sacra of Trieste. He adopted Elizabeth.
In 1964 he lived with Ivette Bahia Rocha in Paris. In 1966 he found his paints that he had lost in the 40s.
He celebrated his 75th anniversary in Rio de Janeiro. He made the exposition of his youngers paints and his paint Five Girls in Guaratinguetá turned stamp. He died in Rio de Janeiro on the 1976, October 26th.
In this paint, we see two fat women with some fruits. They are wearing a pink dress.
I chose this paint, because I believe that the painter wanted to show the beauty is in everybody. Nowadays fat people are being discriminated by many other people. Those people are thin and tall, so they see beaty just in them. But everybody knows it's wrong. Fat people are as beautiful as the other people.
