Quantity of items | 2 |
Artist | ADIR BOTELHO (1932) |
Technique | lithograph on paper |
Edition | SHOVEL |
Signature | Assinado |
Period | 1986 |
Additional information | Adir Botelho (1932), plastic artist and retired professor at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, developed his graphic work in a series of woodcuts, being Canudos, edited in book by the EBA/UFRJ in 2002, the largest with 120 large format works. Having been a disciple of the important Brazilian woodcutter Oswaldo Goeldi, Adir also developed an artistic language associated with Expressionism. However, his works have the characteristic of presenting this expressionist language through a very evident formalism. Another mark of these works is the proximity they have with painting due to typically pictorial visual effects, however achieved through their own way of casting the composition with ink directly on the board to be engraved by specific woodcut processes, that is, through two engraved and superimposed matrices or with only one matrix worked by the usual means: gouges, chisels and other types of wood cutting instruments. cordel or in certain types of sculpture made by popular artists, particularly those of Northeastern origin. The origins of these characteristics in the work of this woodcut engraver can be found in his academic training in painting, held at the former Escola Nacional de Belas Artes between 1949 and 1954, in the influence of his engraving professors at the same institution, Raimundo Cela and Oswaldo Goeldi, and in his great interest in everything related to Brazilian Culture, the main thematic source of his artistic work. The Canudos series deals with the Canudos War, presented literarily by the work Os Sertões, written by Euclides da Cunha. |
Dimensions | 66(height) x 48(width) cm |
Total Dimensions | 66(height) x 48(width) cm |
Condition Report | light creases |
Catalog Manager |
Estela Marzia
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