Mário Navarro da Costa and Rodolfo Pinto do Couto: artistic production and protagonism in the relations between Portugal and Brazil (1911-1945)

• Grant number: 21/05450-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2022
• End date: August 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Elaine Cristina Dias
• Grantee: Natália Cristina de Aquino Gomes
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/13877-7 - Mário Navarro da Costa and Rodolfo Pinto do Couto in Portugal: Luso-Brazilian artistic and cultural exchange (1901-1945), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This research aims to understand how Mário Navarro da Costa and Rodolfo Pinto do Couto acted as two important articulators and protagonists of the artistic relations between Portugal and Brazil. We will investigate the activities and initiatives promoted by the painter Navarro da Costa in Portugal during his time at the consulate in Lisbon (1916-1918) and, later, on his return to Brazil. On the other hand, we will investigate the long stay of the sculptor Pinto do Couto in Brazil, from his arrival in 1911 until 1936, when he returned to Portugal and continued to strengthen contact between the two countries. The analysis of his trajectory will be carried out until 1945, the year of his death in Porto. The central hypothesis of this thesis is that the two artists acted significantly, in diplomatic and productive terms, in the consolidation of a relationship that began in the 1880's with the presence of Portuguese artists in Brazil and with the relations between Brazilians and Portuguese during their formative period =in Europe. Investigating the relationship between these two countries - historically united - through these two artists will contribute to the deepening of the understanding of Brazilian art, Portuguese art and the mutual relationship between the two sides of the Atlantic. We will try to establish its pillars, the productions of the two artists, their protagonism in this articulation and those who were actives around their performances in this period.