Trançar com as mãos e tramar com os olhos: um testemunho da arte goiana

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: SOUZA, José Antônio Gomes de
• Orientador(a): CLÍMACO, José César Teatini
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Cultura Visual
• Departamento: Processos e Sistemas Visuais, Educação e Visualidade
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: 1. Arte; 2. Artesanato 3. Arte goiana; 1. Arte; 2. Artesanato; 3. Estereogramas; 4. Contemporânea
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: 1. Art; 2. Stereogrms; 3. Craftwork; 4. Contemporary
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::ARTES
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2831

My thinking about art today is in some way about understanding a series of events that I both witnessed and lived in Goias.The thinking of the pioneers of modern art like Gustav Ritter, Nazereno Confaloni, and DJ Oliveira, influenced this story. There was a clear dichotomy between the Arts and Crafts, both fields are connected, but there was tension between what one believed to be true art, and one‟s livelihood. The complex concepts of beauty, ugliness, aesthetics and poetry, plus how to commercial create art that would appeal to the masses were all at play. Through this turmoil, the creative discoveries of these artists and craftsman allowed the art of Goiania to thrive and be exported and to find it‟s place in the larger marketplace. This actually enhanced important artistic achievements in places like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in the 70‟s and 80‟s. By this complex and frenzied mix of intertwined artistic ideas and visions, Goias lived a century of modernism in just thirty years. I created a series of works to illustrate this history that were part of three exhibitions called Tramas, Tranças e Cestarias. I chose to combine a variety of different materials with conventional painting, as metaphor for the variety of techniques and approaches that were in use by the creative community at that time. Recently, I employed new computer technology to take make three-dimensional stereograms from original photographs of those pieces, showing traces of classic art originating in Goiania, that is completely contemporary. My research in creating this new work resulted in not just a new interpretation of the work of this period, but a specific focus on the unique themes and styles of that period.