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The Armorial Movement arose under the inspiration and direction of the writer Ariano Suassuna, with the collaboration of a group of artists and writers from the Northeast region of Brazil. The movement was officially launched in Recife on 18 October 1970, with a performance from the Orquestra Armorial and a visual art exhibition in the São Pedro plaza in the centre of the city. Its objective was to give value to popular culture of the Brazilian Northeast, intending to create a type of erudite Brazilian art rooted in the country’s popular culture. According to Suassuna, as “armorial” is the conjunction of insignias, coats-of-arms, standards and flags of a people, heraldry is a much more popular art than anything else. In this way, the adopted name represented the desire to connect with these Brazilian cultural heraldic roots. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
