Joan Of Arch

Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo ( Areia , April 29 of 1843 - Florence , October 7 of 1905 ) was a novelist , poet , scientist , art theorist ,... more

by Pedro Americo

Title

Joan Of Arch

Artist

Pedro Americo

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Reproduction

Description

Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo ( Areia , April 29 of 1843 - Florence , October 7 of 1905 ) was a novelist , poet , scientist , art theorist , essayist , philosopher , politician and teacher Brazil , but is most remembered as a of the most important academic painters of Brazil, leaving works of national impact.

Early showed inclination towards the arts, being considered a child prodigy . Still very young designer participated as a dispatch of naturalists in the northeast, and received support from the government to form the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts . Made his artistic development in Paris , studying with renowned teachers, but also dedicated to science and philosophy. Soon after his return to Brazil began teaching at the Academy and initiated a successful career, achieving projection with large paintings of character civic and heroic, inserting the civilizing and modernizing the country program fostered by Emperor Dom Pedro II , which the Imperial Academy was the governor and executive branch in the artistic sphere.

His style in painting , in line with the major trends of his time, blended elements neoclassical , romantic and realistic , and their production is one of the first major expressions of Academism in Brazil in its peak phase, leaving works that remain active today in collective imagination of the nation, as the Battle of Avai , Speech from the Throne , Independence or Death! , and quartered Tiradentes , played to millions of textbooks nationwide. In the second half of his career focused on Orientalia themes allegorical and biblical , rather than personally and whose market was booming, but this part of his work, in his very popular time, quickly went out of fashion, has not received attention from experts recent times and remains little known.

He spent his career between Brazil and Europe, and in both places his talent was recognized, receiving great favors from critics and audiences but also raising passionate polemics and tenacious opponents. For new vanguards Pedro Américo was undeniably a painter of rare endowments, but above all has become one of the main symbols of everything the academic system had allegedly conservative, elitist and distant from the national reality. Although the modernists have tried to overshadow his star mercilessly - as all academics - his great artistic merits surely make him one of the greatest painters in the country has ever produced, and his immense fame and influence in life, burning that sparked debates in its institutional and political action, cultural, at a critical time for the articulation of a new system of symbols for a country just emerging from colonial status and consolidation of a new system of art on modern methodological and conceptual bases, the stand as a the most important names in the history of Brazilian culture of the late nineteenth century.

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December 1st, 2013