| Summary: | Tarsila Amaral is one of the first and foremost names of Brazilian Art.
While very known, few are aware of her exuberant life, full of vibrant events that, through
her life choices, became a precious collection of the more significant paintings of all times.
This paper introduces some facts about Tarsilas life and how they were transformed into
art, under the viewpoint of Psychoanalysis. Her intense lovers, the losses and
the outstanding participation in the Modernista Movement, are reviewed and seasoned
with psychoanalitic concepts of drive and sublimation, in the lessons of Freud and
Lacan - propellers of artistic creation. Tarsila was passion and inspiration for writers,
painters, politicians and poets, but independently she built her magnificent work and her
own style to create and live, proceeding, as Lacan would say, the logic of the fantasy.
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