As representações de infância na pintura de Maria Pardos

Abstract

The dissertation discusses a set of four paintings of Maria Pardos, produced from 1913 to 1916: Jornaleiro, Sem pão, Chiquinho do Tico-Tico and Sem título, all of them depictions of child/childhood. It analyses the main features of these works, examining them under the context of production and reception, as well as their iconography, considering the creation process of the artist. It emphasizes its consonance with national and international painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. By combining several sources, both visual and written ones, it follows the strategies pursued by Maria Pardos in the art scene. It shows the construction of genre scenes, narratives of intimacy of the private world, brought to art salons aiming to awards and professional recognition. It enters a period of historiographic gap in both the history of Brazilian art and women's history. In this sense it was extremely necessary to biographical construction of the artist, without claiming to exhaust the subject.