A luz, o tema e a técnica: a relação impressionista nas pinturas de paisagens de Pinto Guimarães

Abstract

Ways and epistemological strategies in Art in the Amazons is the research line that is linked to this thesis, whose object of study are the landscapes paintings of Pinto Guimarães, made up during the second half of the twentieth century. It aims to observe the paintings of the local artist Pinto Guimarães, both in its procedural aspects of execution, as in the thematic choice of scenarios and landscaped grounds, as well as the pictorial technique visual, relating its stylistic features to those of nineteenth century French Impressionist paintings. The methodology is theoretical by documentary contribution and biographical, with which paintings produced by the artist in 1963 to 1996 are observed from original works and by reading photographs of important works belonging to private and public collections. This study brings together authors of art history dealing with the fundamentals of French impressionist school, among which stand out Argan (1992), Balzi (2009), Cavalcanti, C. (1981), Gompertz (2013), Lobstein (2010) Mason (2009), Newall (2011), Serullaz (1989) and Hauser (1998). It brings to light the visual legacy that landscape paintings brought to contemporary pictorial art in Belém, according to the stylistic influences to which they were subjected during the period in which they were held. Finally, this research points to the neutral marks of existence of Impressionism in the artist's work and characteristics linked to modernity, but also reveals the true motivations that led the author to the development of his landscape paintings.