Manoel Pastana (1888-1984): biografia de uma coleção

Abstract

The dissertation approaches the artist Manoel Pastana, his production in the historical and artistic context of the city of Belém, making a trajectory since his birth, through his experience in the first quarters of the twentieth century, including the period when he lived in Rio de Janeiro. Theresearch was made in museum, documents and archival collections of the museums of the “Integrated System of Museums and Memorials of the Secretariat of Culture of the State of Pará” (SIM / SECULT-Pa), as well as in primary sources collected in archives and libraries. Research on qualitative Art which proposes the study of the works of the ManoelPastana Collection and its biographical construction (of People and Things), establishing interlocutions between Applied, Decorative and Design Art; its artistic and aesthetic creation and expression, the ideas and thoughts revealed in interviews and news articles and graphically in the decorative pieces inspired by the study of archeological ceramics, the perception of the Brazilian fauna and flora and the proposition of a National Art based on Neomarajoara Style.