In the end, many of them got up started playing music and began to jump and dance. This was the first record of Brazilian music and dance. On April 2015 I went to see this painting, now as a grow up and I could analyse it with more depth. The first mass in Brazil took place on the 26 April 1500, on the Coroa Vermelha beach in the litoral of Bahia, only four days after Pedro Alvares Cabral and his crew invaded Brazil. This painting by Victor Meirelles was commissioned by Dom Pedro II, the emperor at the time and it was an attempt to reconstruct visually moments of Brazilian history. Is undoubtedly one of the most famous and well-known Brazilian paintings, being considered the first historical painting of Brazil. Victor Meirelles’s panting had the purpose to show how progressive Brazil was, but in my recent visit to Museu Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, this image really caught my attention and made me reflect about the reasons why it was commissioned in the first place. As a child we …show more content…
Alternatively, in the moment oneself becomes aware of their own history, ancestrally and position in society and embark in a process of deconstruction, a profound change of concept takes place. Is from the process of descontruction that oneself can start rebuilding, criticizing, reflecting towards ….. “the iliterates of th 21 first century, are those ones who cant ……”