1. NEWS OF THE DECADE 1920
1920’s
Vol. 01, Nº 01
DAILY NEWS
Cultural event
The Week of Modern
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The Week of Modern Art
Photo Gallery
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Celebrities
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Science and History
4
Cine
4
Sports
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The Week of Modern Art in
1922, held in Sao Paulo, at
the Municipal Theatre, 1118 February, had as main
purpose to renew, to transform the artistic and cultural
context of the moment in
the form of literature, the
visual arts, architecture and
music.
That was the year when
Brazil commemorated the
first centenary of Independence and the young modernists wished to rediscover
Brazil, freeing them from
the shackles that bound art
to foreign standards. They
deny, first of all, the academicism in the arts. At this
point, were already esthetically influenced by trends
and movements such as
Cubism, Expressionism
and various ramifications
post-impressionists. The
catalog of the Week features names such as Anita
Malfatti, Di Cavalcanti, Yan
de Almeida Prado, John
Graz, Oswaldo Goeldi and
others, in painting and
drawing; Victor Brecheret,
Interesting
 Brazilian literature
reached its zenith
during the week of
modern art
 The construction of
Christ the Redeemer
in Rio de Janeiro
 Cinema of the 20s
 Brazil's first Olympics
Hildegardo Leao Velloso
cation. Also it denounced
and Wilhelm Haarberg in
the alienation of the people
Sculpture ; Antonio
Garcia Moya and
Georg Przyrembel
in architecture.
Among the writers
were Mário and
Oswald de Andrade,
Menotti Del Picchia,
Plinio Salgado, and
more. The music
was represented by
renowned authors
such asVilla-Lobos,
Guiomar Novais,
Ernani Braga and
Viana Fruitful. Tarsila of Amaral, Anita
Malfatti, Oswald de
Andrade, Mário de
Andrade and Menotti del Picchia,
Marked the beginning of modernism in Brazil
formed the "Group
of Five." Although
the modernist movement did not summarize the Week of Modern
about the reality of the
Art or Sao Paulo, was this
country and criticized the
event that spread the ideas
social problems, issues that
expressed modern times even a century later, still
the boldness, dynamism
very present in Brazil.
and simplicity in communi-
THE WEEK— 13, 15, 17.
February 13 - Official
opening of the event.
Exhibition of paintings
and several sculptures.
Beginning with the conference Graça Aranha,
entitled "The aesthetic
emotion of Modern Art."
February 15 - Lecture
by Menotti del Picchia
about art aesthetics. Ronald de Carvalho reads
the poem entitled The
Frogs of Manuel Bandeira, openly criticizing the
Parnassianism and its
adherents.
February 17 - Musical
performances of VillaLobos, featuring various
musicians.

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The Statue of the Christ
The proposal for a landmark
statue on the mountain was
made in 1921 by the Catholic
Circle of Rio. The group organized an event called Semana
do Monumento ("Monument
Week") to attract donations and
collect signatures to support the
building of the statue.
The donations came mostly from
Brazilian Catholics. The designs
considered for the "Statue of the
Christ" included a representation
of the Christian cross, a statue
Christ the Redeemer
of Jesus with a globe in his
hands, and a pedestal symbolizing the world.
The statue of Christ
the Redeemer with
open arms, a symbol of peace, was
chosen.
Local engineer Heitor da Silva Costa
designed the statue;
it was sculpted by
Polish-French
sculptor Paul Landowski. Construction took nine years,
from 1922 to 1931
and cost the equivalent of US$250,000.
The monument was opened on October 12, 1931.
The Corcovado Mountain before
the construction of Christ the Re-
Celebrities
Former US President William Howard Taft dedicates
The Lincoln Memorial is an American
national monument built to honor the
16th President of the United States,
Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C.
across from the Washington Monument. The architect was Henry Bacon,
the sculptor of the primary statue –
Abraham Lincoln, 1920 – was Daniel
Chester French, and the painter of the
interior murals was Jules Guerin. Dedicated in 1922, it is one of several monuments built to honor an American
the Washington Monument. One hand
president . The monument was unveiled by Warren G. Harding on May
is closed, while the other is open. Be30, 1922, and was attended by the
low them, the Roman fasces, symbols
only surviving son of
of the authority of the Republic.
the former president, Robert Todd
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle
Lincoln.
Daniel Chester
ought not to deter us from the support of a
French. French Precause we believe to be just.”
sident was so
thoughtfully, looking
-Abraham Lincoln
east toward the
reflecting pool and
The Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was
awarded to Albert Einstein "for his
services to Theoretical Physics, and
especially for his discovery of the law
of the photoelectric effect".
Albert Einstein received his Nobel
Prize one year later, in 1922. During
the selection process in 1921, the Nobel Committee for Physics decided
that none of the year’s nominations
met the criteria as outlined in
the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's
statutes, the Nobel Prize can in
such a case be reserved until
the following year, and this
statute was then applied. Albert Einstein therefore received
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his Nobel Prize for 1921 one
gráfico.
year later, in 1922.
Notable awards:
- Matteucci Medal
(1921)
- Copley Medal (1925)
- Max Planck Medal
(1929)
- Time Person of the
Century (1999).

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Science and history
The Tomb of Tutankhamun
KV62 is the tomb of Tutankhamun in
the Valley of the Kings (Egypt), which
became famous for the wealth of
treasure it contained.[1] The tomb was
discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter,
underneath the remains of workmen's
huts built during the Ramesside Period; this explains why it was spared
from the worst of the tomb depredations of that time. KV is an abbreviation for the Valley of the Kings.
By being open, it still contained
gold pieces, fabrics, furniture,
weapons and sacred texts that
reveal much about Egypt 3400
years ago.
The items found in the tomb
were all loaded into the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Tutankhamun
Cine
Cinema of the 20s
1920 - Robert Wiene launches in Germany The Cabinet of Dr.. Caligari,
considered one of the best movie of
the 1920s.
1921 - It is established that the
Fleischer Studios in the next decade,
would create a Betty Boop. This year
is launched in Brazil the first magazine
in Hollywood productions - A Scena
Muda. It launched the classic Charles
Chaplin, The Kid.
1925 - In the U.S., Charles Chaplin
reaches the apex of his character bum
Sports
with The Gold Rush. Universal Pictures performs Phantom of the Opera,
following horror movies, innovating the
art of makeup.
1926 - Is launched
in Brazil the magazine Cinearte, most
notably the production of the country.
1927 - Launch of
first talkie The Jazz
Singer.
1928 - Walt Disney releases the Mickey Mouse character.
“Life is a play that does not allow trials ... So,
sing, laugh, dance, cry and live intensely every
moment of your life ... before the curtain goes
down and the play ends with no applause.”
- Charlie Chaplin
Brazil's first Olympics
Brazil's first Olympics was the 1920
Games in Antwerp when they were
represented by 16 athletes competing
in swimming, diving, rowing, water
polo, and shooting.
Brazil's first Olympic champion was
Guilherme Paraense who won gold in
30 meter military pistol shooting at the
1920 Games.
These were the countries that competed in Antwerp:
Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Czechoslovakia, Denmark,
Spain, United States, Estonia, Finland,
France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands,
Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom , Romania, Sweden,
Switzerland and Yugoslavia.

4. “The reading of all good books is a more honest converNews of the decade 1920
DAILY NEWS
Década de 1920
Editora: Fabiana Da R. S. Almeida
Redatora: Shirley Carvalho
Revisora: Profª Ariane
sation with the people of centuries past.”
- René Descartes
“Reading after a certain age overly distracting the human spirit of its creators reflections. Everyone who
reads and uses more of the brain gets less laziness of
thinking.”
- Albert Einstein
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