Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo | |
 Facade of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo | |
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| Established | 1948 |
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| Location | Ibirapuera Park,São Paulo,Brazil |
| Coordinates | 23°35′17.624″S46°39′19.181″W / 23.58822889°S 46.65532806°W /-23.58822889; -46.65532806 |
| Type | Arts |
| Director | Milú Villela |
| Curator | Felipe Chaimovich |
| Website | mam |
TheSão Paulo Museum of Modern Art, (Portuguese:Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, orMAM), is located inIbirapuera Park,São Paulo.
Founded byFrancisco Matarazzo Sobrinho andYolanda Penteado, and built in 1948, the museum is modelled on theMuseum of Modern Art inNew York City. The Museum has a collection and includes more than 4,000 works by artists such asAnita Malfatti,Alfred Barye,Aldo Bonadei,Alfredo Volpi,Emiliano Di Cavalcanti,José António da Silva,Joan Miró,Marc Chagall,Mario Zanini, andPablo Picasso.
Among those who studied at the museum was painterSylvia Martins.[1]
The collection includes pieces by Anita Malfatti, Aldo Bonadei, Alfredo Volpi, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, José Antonio da Silva, Joan Miró,Alfred Barye, Marc Chagall, Mario Zanini, Pablo Picasso and Raoul Dufy, among others. Most of them belonged to the private collection of Matarazzo and his wife.
The inaugural exhibition at the MAM, entitledFrom Figurativism to Abstraction, deepened a discussion that had already begun years before, on the opposition between figurative art (representation of nature), already considered retrograde, and abstract art (subjective), which would emerge two decades earlier in Europe, and be considered theavant-garde of the visual arts.
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