• ‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution

    ‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution
    He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the Royal Academy’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernismIn 1931, as the Corpus Christi parade made its way through central São Paulo, the Catholic faithful found a tall man walking in the opposite direction. As he went, Flávio de Carvalho flirted with the men, and refused all calls for him to cease his disrup

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