Anthropophagic movement

The anthropophagic movement (Portuguese: Movimento antropofágico) was a Brazilian artistic manifestation of the 1920s founded and theorized by the poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do Amaral.

In his works, Oswald de Andrade ironized the Brazilian elite's submission to developed countries and proposed the "cultural absorption of imported techniques in order to elaborate them autonomously, and convert them into an export product".

The declaration was the first formal reaction by Brazilian intellectuals in favor of an authentically national artistic production, but it failed to influence a new generation of writers, as intended.

[4] Revista de Antropofagia, a part of the anthropophagic movement that emerged as a consequence of the Manifesto Antropófago, was published between May 1928 and August 1929 and had two phases.

On the 1968 album Tropicalia ou Panis et Circensis, Gilberto Gil and Torquato Neto explicitly refer to the statement in the song "Geléia geral" when they sing that "alegria é a prova dos nove" (joy is the test of nine), followed by "e a tristeza é teu porto seguro" (sadness is your safe harbor).