Mário Navarro da Costa and Rodolfo Pinto do Couto in Portugal: Luso-Brazilian artistic and cultural exchange (1901-1945)

• Grant number: 22/13877-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2023
• End date: February 29, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Elaine Cristina Dias
• Grantee: Natália Cristina de Aquino Gomes
• Supervisor: Miguel Filipe Ferreira Figueira de Faria
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/05450-0 - Mário Navarro da Costa and Rodolfo Pinto do Couto: artistic production and protagonism in the relations between Portugal and Brazil (1911-1945), BP.DR

Abstract

The research internship abroad project focuses on deepening our thesis in progress "Mário Navarro da Costa and Rodolfo Pinto do Couto: artistic production and protagonism in relations between Portugal and Brazil (1911-1945)" (FAPESP Process: 2021/05450-0) and will be developed through research in Portugal, especially in Lisbon and Porto with research trips to France and Italy. Thus, we intend to investigate the articulations, activities, artistic and literary productions of the Brazilian painter and diplomat Mário Navarro da Costa and the Portuguese sculptor Rodolfo Pinto do Couto and their reverberations in the Portuguese context. It is, then, the analysis of the artistic and cultural exchange between Portugal and Brazil undertaken by these two characters who, in different ways, promoted Brazilian art and issues related to Brazil in Portugal. Navarro da Costa's activities took place, above all, during his work at the Consulate of Lisbon and in two moments, between 1916 and 1918 and, later, in the years of 1927 and 1928. Pinto do Couto maintains contact with his homeland, since his arrival in Brazil in 1911, with intensification in 1936, when he returned to Portugal. We will also research the network of contacts built by them, in order to highlight the artists, intellectuals and other agents immersed in the Portuguese context who also demonstrate an interest in a Luso-Brazilian artistic and cultural exchange. (AU)