“From February 13 to 17, 1922, the year of Brazil’s first centennial of independence, the so-called Week of Modern Art took place at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, during which several events – conferences, recitals, exhibitions, concerts – were held that mobilized or projected great artistic personalities (Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Ronald de Carvalho, Di Cavalcanti, Vicente Rego Monteiro, Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Brecheret, Villa-Lobos?) and had repercussions throughout the vast Brazilian territory. The Week was the starting point of the most important cultural movement that ever existed in Brazil, the modernist movement, which brought together other great names such as Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cecília Meireles, Jorge de Lima, Gilberto Freyre, and that tried to “set the clock” Brazilian civilizational and artistic, stimulating reflection on the “Brazilianness” and producing works that have been fruitful until today the Brazilian letters and arts.”