Vicente do Rego Monteiro

With precocious talent, in 1913 and 1914 he showed his art for the first time by participating in the Hall of the Independent Artists (Salons des Indépendents), in the French capital.

[3] The following year Rego Monteiro worked on a drawing series inspired by the dancer Pavlova and created a ballet of indigenous legends of Brazil.

[2] From 1922 to 1930 Vicente do Rego Monteiro was associated with Léonce Rosenberg's Galérie de l'effort Moderne, showing in a variety of solo exhibitions.

[2] There was a fire at his studio that destroyed some of his works, but afterwards in 1928, Amédée Ozenfant suggested Rego Monteiro do a second solo show at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune.

[2] He would portray legends, talisman, and beliefs of the Amazon River Indians, these themes stayed in his works for the rest of his life.

He also challenged in his art the way Parisian artists portrayed Indians as "noble savages" when they have been the revered symbol of Brazilian republicanism.

São Paulo was rapidly changing, the elite traveled often to Europe and would bring back the latest aesthetic ideas and contemporary art, which spread widely in a short amount of time.

Rego Monteiro was part of an artist group that focused was centered on modernism using pre-colonization native roots and the regional cultural traditions and stories.

[4] The Semana de Arte Moderna was the turning point for Early Brazilian modernism, and from that exhibition sprang Pau-Brazil and Antropofagia.

[7] In his poems, Rego Monteiro was very whimsical with strong humorous undertones that mocked traditional Eurocentric travel narrative.