Paisagens de Belém: história, natureza e pintura na obra de Antônio Parreiras, 1895-1909

Abstract

This research has as an objective the analysis of the paintings from the artist Antônio Diogo Parreiras that are made in the beginning of the twenty century and that are property from the Belém’s Art Museum. They are images from a city that have an equatorial landscape and wich is one of the most representative urban sets from the brazilians cities, a legacy from a time that was called “ The Rubber Boom”. This event brought to the North of Brazil in the beginning of the twenty century, several artists, including the painting Antônio Diogo Parreiras, that made a painting exposition. The Parreiras works that registered the city of Belém are the most important register from the history of this place. They are made inside a context that includes many intelectuals and another brazilians artists. They consist like an iconography that possesss in itself irrefutable narratives, offering to the people that see his work, a society register from your environment, configuring the art work like a reading that makes possible the discovery of many points that help us in the hard work of understanding our Social History from the Amazonia.