Abstract:
The main point of study in this paper is to show the modern engraving in Bahia in the decades of 1950 and 1960. This research adopts a qualitative, historical-critical approach, aimed at a deeper understanding of artística processes within their social and cultural context. To This end, the following methodological procedures were used: a documentary and bibliographic survey, encompassing primary and secundary sources, such as catálogos, historical documents, academic publications, and institutional records; interviews with Artists, as well as consulting of public and private collections, with the aim of recovering Memories, intentions, and formative trajectories; visual, formal, and iconographic analysis of a set of selected Works, with attention to compositional, symbolic, and stylistic elements; and the establishment of comparative axes between local production and National and internacional aesthetic movements, aiming to identify influences, dialogues, and singularities. In the first part tracts about the identification of four first expression of four first expression of graphic art: illustration in woodcut inside the magazines that circulated in the society, a new way to expose images, the engraving to put in an appearance in exhibitions with modern contour, and the art expression and reproduction of the graphic art in the local artistic circuit. The second part treats about the delineation of a production in modern engraving inside Belas Artes School of Bahia; in relation of methodology that extant in a School and implementation of an engraving atelier; a selection of teachers, students and especially fomentation ideological of modern engraving, constituted a vigorous production and formation in a new generation of a new engraving artists. The last chapter presented engraving artists and that modern engraving in Bahia, analyzing each individual production, despite being produced in a collective environment, had characterístics and specificities of each artist. The research concludes that a modern engraving in Bahia in the middle of 20th century was determinant to input of artistic modernity of Bahia.
