The Mafuá Collection: Ethnographic notes on three collections of popular paintings and design in Brazi

Authors

  • Suiá Omim

Abstract

The research of Edson Meirelles, photographer from Rio de Janeiro, is composed of 20 thousand slides (chromes) of “popular paintings” (or folk paintings) produced in different Brazilian cities. What the photographer considers as “Brazilian popular graphic arts” encompasses a great diversity of hand-painted works – drawings, lettering, words, typographics, abstract or figurative graphisms – that can be found in small businesses, street vendors’ carts or stands, circus’ panels/billboards, amusement parks, etc. In addition to constructing an extensive iconographic collection, the research work of the photographer serves as the basis for an anthropological reflection upon a modernist conception of Brazil, exploring the limits of the notion of popular arts and investigating the creativity, agency, and intentionality of such productions. In this paper, we introduce the collections of popular paintings that comprise the Mafuá Collection (Brazilian popular graphic arts; popular typographics; the mythopoetics of the haunted train, mural paintings) to reflect upon the conceptual choices of the author in the photographic documentation of a “Brazilian popular design”.

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Published

2015-05-20

How to Cite

Omim, S. (2015). The Mafuá Collection: Ethnographic notes on three collections of popular paintings and design in Brazi. Museologia E Patrimônio, 8(1), 53–77. Retrieved from https://revistamuseologiaepatrimonio.mast.br/index.php/ppgpmus/article/view/361

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Articles

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