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In a context of social and political upheaval the year after the military coup, Ceres Franco and Jean Boghici prepared a big exhibition of Brazilian and foreign artists – Argentineans and Europeans – to showcase a set of works that indicated a new global trend for realism in the arts. The title, Opinião 65 (Opinion 65), demonstrated the plural nature of the exhibition and a desire to give a voice to young people, who for the first time in history were taking the lead in what was going on.

This was the first time artists from the “movement” later known as new Brazilian figuration were brought …