 As a group, they developed ideas and manifestos that would inspire future generations of Brazilian artists such as the Pau-Brasil poetry manifesto and Antropofagia movement.In December 1917, Anita Malfatti caused a scandal with her solo exhibition "Exposição de Pintura Moderna ("Modern Painting Exhibition).Her use of bright colors and abstract figures could not be more in more opposition to the romantic, naturalistic paintings that conservative Brazilian culture revered.