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| Author(s): |
Daniela Carolina Perutti
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2007-12-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz;
John Cowart Dawsey;
Maria Cecilia Franca Lourenco
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| Advisor: | Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz |
| Abstract | |
This master\'s dissertation is about José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1850-1899), a painter born in Itu, mainly known for his regionalistic tematic paints. The main objective consists in understand how, through the corporal representation of the peasant and other characters, the artist is a product and a producer of a certain imaginary of São Paulo - exactly in a period when the discussion theme among the paulist elite is the affirmation of an identity for the state. Both in paintings about urban environment, and in those of regionalistic subject, it was possible to identify how the represented characters\' bodies and their relashionship with the physical environment express a series of ambivalences. In the paintings which the peasants are the protagonists; in one sense, there is an intention in valuing these characters and their way of life and; in another, the light and tonality of their skins make them very similar to the ambient which they are setted - composed by the solar light and the ground - as if both were maid of the same substances. In this sense, it would be possible to aproximate the Almeida Júnior\'s peasants to a series of deterministic discourses of the epoch that characterize the human being as a product of his physical environment. Besides that, throughout sucessives comparisons between the several painting genres produced by the artist, it was tried to understand why his representations were eficient from the simbolic point of view, since they were recognyzed by his critics as precursors of a modern art in Brazil. (AU) | |