ESCOLA BRASIL:
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Data Base on the Escola Brasil: In the period from 1970 to 1974 the premises of the Escola
Brasil: were located in the building of a former pharmaceutical
laboratory, at Av. Rouxinol, 51 in the City of São Paulo. Escola
Brasil: was a center of artistic experiences founded by artists
Luis Paulo Baravelli, Carlos Fajardo, Frederico Nasser and José
Resende, who were joined by other artists and art professors
such as Maciej Babinski, Dudi Maia Rosa and José Carlos “Boi”
César Ferreira. The Escola’s proposal was to create a new pedagogical
model for the teaching of fine arts, by criticizing traditional
teaching methods. The focus was on the development of the students’
creative potential by emphasizing artistic production processes.
In the course of its existence, the Escola Brasil: was attended
by approximately 400 students, and left a long-lasting influence
on the history of art in São Paulo. With the objective of recovering
and preserving the history and tradition of this outstanding
period in the history of São Paulo art, the Fundação Stickel
created a data base on the Escola Brasil: and the artists related
to it. The data base stores material and detailed information
on the Escola and its activities, with the objective of being
a reference center for research on this matter. The material
currently comprising the data base includes biographies and
works of art of the artists linked to the Escola, articles from
the press, art reviews, magazines and photographs of those times.
This material is already available for consulting at the Fundação
Stickel. The information in the data base is constantly updated
and increased by a group of researchers, in order to become
a reference center on the history of the Escola Brasil: and
of the art tendencies prevailing in São Paulo in the seventies. |