Paulo Menotti Del Picchia (

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, March 20, 1892 –

, August 23, 1988) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter. He is associated with the Generation of 1922, the first generation of Brazilian

modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

artists. Del Picchia was educated in law, and was a practicing attorney in

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when he began writing poetry. He moved to

, his native city, and became acquainted with

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and the other young modernists in the city. He was a member of the Group of Five, along with Andrade, poet

Oswald de Andrade José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born, spent most of his life and died in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a m ...

, and painters

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and

Anita Malfatti Anita Catarina Malfatti (December 2, 1889 – November 6, 1964) is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil. Her solo exhibition in Sao Paulo, from 1917–1918, was controversial ...

, and was one of the key participants of the

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in São Paulo, in February 1922, a watershed event in the history of modernist arts in Brazil. Because del Picchia outlived his literary generation, he received in person much more honor for his role in the creation of ''Modernismo'' than any of his youthful colleagues. By the time of his death, he had received most of the highest governmental, academic, and private honors in Brazil, and his house in Itapira is now a museum. He occupied the 28th chair of the

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from 1943 until his death in 1988.

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Casa Menotti Del Picchia
(in Portuguese)
Biography
(in Portuguese) * 1892 births 1988 deaths Brazilian male poets Brazilian science fiction writers 20th-century Brazilian lawyers Brazilian people of Italian descent Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters 20th-century Brazilian poets 20th-century Brazilian male writers {{Brazil-writer-stub