Using one of the works by Amaral mentioned in our lecture, explain this tension between artistic innovation and problematic tokenism.
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral was both groundbreaking in early Brazilian Modernist art and extremely problematic in the way she commodified clichés of “Brazilianness” for an audience that was mostly white and privileged. Using one of the works by Amaral mentioned in our lecture, explain this tension between artistic innovation and problematic tokenism.