Pintor ou designer popular: a etnografia de um ofício através do acervo de Edson Meirelles

In the article “Pintor ou designer popular: a etnografia de um ofício através da coleção de Edson Meirelles”, written by Suiá Omin, an ethnography is carried out by the photographic collection – Mafuá – composed of more than 20 thousand popular paintings’ chromes produced in different Brazilian cities between 1971 and 2004, by photographer Edson Meirelles.

The work aims to leverage documentation of popular pictorial expressions and, thus, analyse the use of the popular painter or designer category as used by Meirelles to “describe a manual painting activity, which – although heterogeneous in forms, purposes and uses in different regions of contemporary Brazil – delimits a specific profession, involving techniques, talents, knowledge, and recognition, distinguishing it from other activities, such as wall or picture painter, plastic artist, designer or graphic artist ”.

The photographer, throughout his career, has dedicated himself to recording popular typographic expressions on circus signs, signs for bars, trucks, posters, and walking carts. His collection is currently available at the Tomie Ohtake Institute, in São Paulo.

Read the article here.

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2019

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Suiá Omin

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Amazônica | Revista de Antropologia