A Escola de Belas Artes de Pelotas (1949-1973): trajetória institucional e papel na história da arte

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Magalhães, Clarice Rego
• Orientador(a): Amaral, Giana Lange do
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Pelotas
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação
• Departamento: Faculdade de Educação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Instituição de ensino de arte; Escola de Belas Artes; Academicismo; História da educação; História da arte
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Teaching institution; Fine arts school; Academicism; History of education; Art history
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: http://guaiaca.ufpel.edu.br/handle/123456789/1680

This thesis is a study about the Fine Arts School of Pelotas Escola de Belas Artes de Pelotas (EBA or EBAP) , a higher education art teaching institution that had great importance to the visual arts development in the city of Pelotas, being at the origin of the present Centro de Artes of the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (CEARTE/UFPEL). The work inserts itself in the teaching institutions history field and is anchored to the theoretical proposal of Cultural History and Education Sociology. The time period examined runs from1949 to 1973, limits that correspond respectively to the year of the foundation and the year when the private school became a federal institution, being incorporated to the Universidade Federal de Pelotas. The thesis aims to understand why EBA embraces academicism as its art style and pedagogical method in the mid 20th century, when modern art is being generally embraced, and keeps this preference until the end of the sixties. It also seeks to ascertain how the School has been kept functioning during its 24 years of existence being private and free of charge. The work has been developed by means of collection and analysis of documents. The main source of the documents are the institution‟s archives, the founder‟s family records, interviews with people that lived the School‟s genesis and evolution, newspaper material of the period, and the founder‟s diary. We reached the conclusion that the EBA not only has been founded but also has been maintained thanks to the efforts of Pelotas‟ cultural elite which supported and effectively participated in the project, always under the leadership of Dona Marina de Moraes Pires. This participation occurred in such a way, in such a close relationship, that EBA configured itself as a reflection of that elite, being made in its image and likeness, with the same values, the same mentality and from the same imagination. Hence, the characteristic academicism of the institution, of its teaching form and artistic production has been determined by factors that existed in the society within which it arise and developed itself, such as conservatism. And the School, being a higher education art teaching institution, legitimates academicism, thus influencing the History of Art in Pelotas.