Curator, Luis Perez-Oramas: A very special sense of humor makes Tarsila's venture into surrealism truly unique. This painting, which depicts an urban landscape with really strange characters, relates to an actual dream, on which Tarsila gave a testimony years later.
Artist, Tarsila do Amaral (narrator): One day I had a dream. I remember well that on waking up I went to my easel to paint my dream. There were three black boots in the middle of the road with very high houses. This canvas was acquired by a friend, almost against my will because I wanted to keep it, as it was the only one that artistically translates into art images of a dream I had had.
Luis Perez-Oramas: The perspective of "The Street" is framed by the compulsive repetition of squares and rectangles. In the middle of that stream of light, three red, weird, characters appear at the center of the painting. A sense of imbalance and vertigo brings us forth within the scene as if we were inside her dream.