NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
Zélia Salgadostudied at the National School for Fine Arts between 1924-30, together with Lúcio Costa, future urbanist who designed Brasília, Brazil’s capital, and painter Cândido Portinari, who immortalised her youth in a charcoal portrait in 1924. While totally unaware of the São Paulo Modern Art Week of 1922, she would live with the radical transformations of Rio de Janeiro. In this gallery we witness Zélia and her art school pals amidst the ruins of the Castle Hill – cradle of the city and razed to “modernise” it -, playing like Errol Flynn up the School’s roofs or girls posing as boys. Some candid portraits of the 1920′s…
