Oswaldo Goeldi e Murilo Mendes: relações entre gravador e poeta

Abstract

The main goal of this work is to analyze how the relation between Oswaldo Goeldi and Murilo Mendes begun, artists which impact in the Brazilian Modern Art is still little studied. Murilo Mendes acted as an art critic and poet and always had an intimate relationship with the arts in general. Through his contacts with friends who were artists he gathered an art collection which nowadays gives us a view of the modern art in Brazil and Italy while the poet was alive. In the collection that nowadays is found in the Museu de Arte Moderna Murilo Mendes (MAMM/JF), we can find four small engravings from Oswaldo Goeldi: Mulheres no Mangue, Vilarejo, O Ladrão and Bôas Entradas. As Murilo Mendes’ collection was established by gifts from friends as gratitude after positive critics or gifts given in special dates, such as birthdays, we questioned the presence of Goeldi’s pieces of art in it, as we did not have any clear report of a friendship relationship between these two artists. Therefore, the present work will show the trajectories of both artists in the moment of establishment of the modern art in Brazil, from 1920 to 1961, looking for evidences that can proof that these artists knew each other and nourished a relationship of admiration and friendship that can explain the trajectory of Goeldi’s works of art to Mendes’ collection.