FROM NAÏF TO POP ART - BAJADO'S TRAJECTORY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MANGUEGEEK CONCEPT
Olinda; Bajado; Naif, Pop Art, Manguegeek
Bajado or Euclides Francisco Amâncio, was a painter, draftsman and poster artist who was born in Maraial, in 1912 and died in Olinda in 1996. The construction of his visual identity, as an artist, is shaped by the influence of History in Comics and Cinema, languages that he consumed intensely throughout his childhood and adolescence in the Zona da Mata of Pernambuco. Bajado, he painted fenders of trucks, walls of commercial establishments, paintings, in addition to having his work exposed in several exhibitions in Brazil and abroad – a true celebrity of his time. His compositions of flat colors and outlined with black lines, communicated with clarity and objectivity, dealing with popular festivals such as Carnival, Bumba Meu Boi, São João – not to mention football, bohemia and narratives associated with religious traditions of different natures. An artist of great representation in the Historic Site of Olinda, being referenced in biographies, interviews, documentaries, songs and honored in events promoted by public and private initiatives. Due to his high Symbolic Capital and the influence of History in Comics and Cinema in his artistic work, this doctoral thesis begins to understand the aforementioned artist not only as a Naïf painter, but as someone who was ahead of his time, assuming in his compositions , elements of Pop Culture. In this context, Bajado becomes, for a specific group of artists, the myth of origin for a tradition of comic book production that is intended to inculcate in the City of Olinda. From research and authorial productions carried out by different local agents, which began at Colégio Imaculado Coração de Maria – Bairro Novo/Olinda – unfolding to the Federal University of Pernambuco and going beyond the limits of the State of Pernambuco, the MangueGeek concept was developed. . This can be understood through a collection of four-volume graphic novels that present narratives about everyday life and major events; celebrities and the anonymous; and everything that can transmit and strengthen the memory and identity of Pernambuco regionalism.