The modern art wee included art shows of expressionist paintings, lectures really directed at exalting the future of industrialization and poetry recitals. The monnary came to be seen as a kind of declaration of brazilian artistic independence. Mike read writes bayo, our column on latin american affairs,. It was slightly contradictory that these would be cultural revolutionaries. Were the scions of the coffee aristocracy in salpava. They were dandies, essentially. But they were also disruptors, and that was import why was that important? Ut what were they disrupting?