Orientador: Maria de Fatima Morethy Couto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T11:45:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vicente_AndreiaMariaFarah_M.pdf: 19556829 bytes, checksum: 686cc2c66a287ef5728caa7f985b6a90 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este trabalho analisa o processo de inserção no cenário artístico nacional dos artistas plásticos João Câmara e Siron Franco - que, através da linguagem da pintura oriunda da técnica em óleo sobre tela, se destacaram no cenário artístico nas décadas de 60 e 70, época em que se discutia intensamente - tanto no Brasil como no exterior - a crise do suporte artístico tradicional em detrimento das novas linguagens artísticas. Como fator importante neste processo, destacamos a criação de Salões competitivos em outras capitais do Brasil nos quais as obras desses dois artistas foram selecionadas ou premiadas. A representação da figura humana é o principal eixo condutor da trajetória das obras de João Câmara e Siron Franco, sendo o corpo espaço metafórico para reflexões sobre os problemas humanos, críticas à sociedade e/ou ao momento político em que o país se encontrava no período acima citado. / Abstract: This dissertation analyses the insertion of the artists João Câmara and Siron Franco - artists that through the language of painting build up from the technique oil painting over canvas have appeared into the artistic scenario in the decades of 1960 and 1970. In this time it was discussed - in Brazil and abroad - the crisis of the traditional artistic support, taking only in consideration the new artistic languages. As an important factor of this process we point out the creation of competitive Art Salons in others main cities of Brazil, in which the works of those two artists were selected and won thefirst prizes. The representation of the human figure is the main axis of the trajectory of the works of João Câmara and Siron Franco, taking into account that the body is the metaphorical space for the reflections upon human problems, critics to the society and/or, to the political moment of the country related to the aforementioned decades. / Mestrado / Artes / Mestre em Artes

The thesis examines the 9th Congress and 18th General Assembly of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) organized in Czechoslovakia in September and October 1966. The main aim of the research is not only to reflect on the title themes of the meeting (The Essence of Art Criticism, The Functions of Art Criticism, The Methodology and Practice of the Profession of Critics), but also to shed some light on the circumstances surrounding the development of exhibitions commissioned for the congress, framing them in a perspective that acknowledges the active role of the event in shaping their ultimate role. To provide proper context, the thesis discusses also the further activities of the Czechoslovak Section (the time frame is concentrated on developments from 1945 to the first half of the 1970s). Furthermore, by turning the attention to the debates that took place within a divided Europe, the aim is to take into consideration the subtleties of viewpoints and interactions that were played out on the frontline of the Cold War and to document an elaborate web of connectivity that came about through a series of personal encounters.

The British understanding of Chinese painting owed much to Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) who enriched the British Museum’s collections of Oriental painting, and for almost forty years, published widely and delivered lectures in Britain and abroad. Binyon’s legacy is to be found in several archival resources scattered in Britain, America, Japan and China. This dissertation is a study of the reception of Chinese painting in early twentieth century Britain, and examines Binyon’s contribution to its appreciation and criticism in the West. By examining the William Anderson collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings (1881), I illuminate Anderson’s way of seeing Chinese pictorial art and his influence on Binyon’s early study of Oriental painting. I argue that the early scroll, The Admonitions of the Court Instructress, which Binyon encountered in 1903, ignited his interest in the study of traditional Chinese painting, yet his conception of Chinese pictorial art was influenced by Japanese and Western expertise. To reveal the British taste and growing interest in Chinese painting around 1910, Binyon’s involvements in major acquisitions and exhibitions of Chinese paintings at the British Museum, including the Sir Aurel Stein collection (1909) and the Frau Olga-Julia Wegener collection (1910), as well as his visits to Western collections of Chinese art in America and Germany, will be investigated. In order to understand the relevance and values of Chinese painting for the development of early twentieth-century British art, I also scrutinize how the principle of “rhythmic vitality” or qiyun shengdong, as well as the Daoist-and Zen-inspired aesthetic ideas were assiduously promoted in Binyon’s writings on Chinese painting, and how Chinese art and thought kindled British modernists to fuse art with life in order to re-vitalize the spirit of modern European art with non-scientific conceptions.