Lotus Lobo e a memória do design gráfico mineiro

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of the artistic production developed by the artist and lithographer Lotus Lobo from the late 1960s to the present day, with matrices of packaging labels discarded by the printmakers of Minas Gerais (especially from Juiz de Fora), at a time when printing technologies were being replaced. I highlighted her proximity to Pop Art — whose works also dialogue with the graphic arts linked to the industrial context — showing the influences and the disparities that prevent her work from being characterized as Pop. I try to reflect on two directions of her work: the production of the plastic artist, through the appropriation of the images of these matrices and materials refused by the industry, as the stained printings (maculaturas); and the researcher who tries to keep alive the memory of the graphic design of Minas Gerais of the early twentieth century, either by academic projects or through independent initiatives, demonstrating the high creativity of her artistic production and the wide range of her contributions.