We start at the São Paulo Museum of Art, also known as MASP. Did you know it was the first modern art museum in Brazil?
The iconic building designed by Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi houses the largest collection of European art in South America. In its rooms, find more than 11,000 works of art from renowned artists like Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others have their art shown at MASP.Then go to Ibirapuera Park, the green lung of São Paulo. The park was elected by the “The Guardian magazine” the best Park in the world. The three outstanding art museums MAC, MAM and Afro-Brazil museum played a big role on the deserved winning election of the park.
Tour the main areas of the park, such as the famous auditorium designed by Oscar Niemeyer. You will be impressed by its avant-garde architecture!MAC - Contemporary Art Museum has a collection of more than 10000 pieces of paintings, sculptures, drawings, carvings and photographs of international and national artists. Works by international artists like Picasso, Paul Klee, Modigliani, Miro, Kandinsky and more.
National artists like Lasar Segall, Di Cavalcanti, Candido Portinari, and contemporary artists has also their masterpieces as well. On the top floor of MAC building has an open-air 360° viewpoint that visitors can see the infiniteness of São Paulo as no other place.From MAC stroll to MAM, the Modern Art Museum that is just next door.
See the building designed by the renowned architect Oscar Niemayer. MAC has in its collection about 5000 art pieces, and displays the majority of Brazilian artists from the second half of the 20th century.We'll then visit the Afro Brasil Museum, an institution that pays homage to the African roots of Brazilian culture and recalls its darkest moments. We will look at photos, documents, ceramics and artwork from different parts of Africa, Cuba, Haiti and even the United States.Finish the tour with a flourish driving to State Art Gallery (Pinacoteca) that has in its collection some of the most important and relevant pieces of Brazilian art, with more than 8000 paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries.
