Manoel Bandeira (Escada PE 1900 - Recife PE 1964)
1900 - Escada PE
1964 - Recife PE
Education
n.d. - Recife PE - Takes courses in linear, ornamental and architectural drawing at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Recife
Chronology
Draftsman, illustrator, painter and watercolorist
n.d. - Recife PE - Publishes drawings in Diário da Manhã, Diário de Pernambuco, Jornal do Comércio and other newspapers
n.d. - Recife PE - Collaborates with the State Historical and Artistic Heritage office, the Instituto Arqueológico (of which he is also a member), the State Museum, the State Public Archive, the Department of Agriculture and the former Instituto Joaquim Nabuco de Pesquisas Sociais
n.d. - Recife PE - Designs pennants commemorating the tercentenary of the Pernambuco Restoration
n.d. - Recife PE - Produces several works on parchment, notably the diplomas of the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, the State Government and Moinho Recife
ca.1920 - Recife PE - Publishes his first pen-and-ink drawings in Revista do Nordeste
ca.1920 - Recife PE - Illustrates the Livro do Nordeste [Book of the Northeast], a commemorative edition for the centenary of Diário de Pernambuco
ca.1920 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Illustrates the commemorative editions of O Jornal on Pernambuco and Minas Gerais
1939 - Recife PE - Illustrates the book Olinda - 2º Guia Prático, Histórico e Sentimental de Cidade Brasileira [Olinda - 2nd Practical, Historical and Sentimental Guide to a Brazilian City], by Gilberto Freyre (1900 - 1987)
1960/1961 - Recife PE - Carries out a descriptive graphic survey of Engenho Aurora for the Museu do Açúcar
1984 - Recife PE - Is honored with the publication of the book Desenhos de Manoel Bandeira [Drawings by Manoel Bandeira] by the Pernambuco State Department of Tourism
Critiques
"His line is strong, rough, hard. Yet poetry always surfaces in all this strength, along with a certain very caressing tenderness. Strong poetry and tenderness - these are the characteristics of Manoel Bandeira's drawings. And it was these qualities that made him the interpreter par excellence of the old aspects of colonial architecture - old streets, old houses, old stones."
Manuel Bandeira
Citado em: LEITE, José Roberto Teixeira. Dicionário crítico da pintura no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Artlivre, 1988. p. 54. [Texto originalmente publicado em: BANDEIRA, Manuel. Crônicas da província do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1937].
"An artist almost untouched by any of the isms that dominated the century, who never doubted himself or his land, can only appear today as a fascinating novelty."
José Cláudio
BRASIL: arte do Nordeste. Rio de Janeiro: Spala, 1986.
Collections
Arquivo Público Estadual - Pernambuco
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco - Fundaj - Recife PE
Group Exhibitions
ca.1920 - Recife PE - Grande Salão de Pintura da Exposição Geral de Pernambuco [Grand Painting Salon of the Pernambuco General Exhibition]
Posthumous Exhibitions
1982 - Recife PE - Individual de Pintura e Desenho [Solo Painting and Drawing Exhibition], at Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
1983 - Recife PE - 50 Anos de Casa-Grande & Senzala [50 Years of The Masters and the Slaves], at Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
1984 - Aracaju SE - 50 Anos de Casa-Grande & Senzala [50 Years of The Masters and the Slaves]
1984 - Brasília DF - 50 Anos de Casa-Grande & Senzala [50 Years of The Masters and the Slaves]
1984 - Lisbon (Portugal) - 50 Anos de Casa-Grande & Senzala [50 Years of The Masters and the Slaves], at Museu Gulbenkian da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
1984 - Salvador BA - 50 Anos de Casa-Grande & Senzala [50 Years of The Masters and the Slaves]
1984 - Vitória ES - 50 Anos de Casa-Grande & Senzala [50 Years of The Masters and the Slaves]
1993 - São Paulo SP - 100 Obras-Primas da Coleção Mário de Andrade: pintura e escultura [100 Masterpieces from the Mário de Andrade Collection: Painting and Sculpture], at Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, IEB/USP
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brasil-brasis: cousas notáveis e espantosas [Brazil-Brazils: Notable and Astonishing Things]. Olhares Modernistas [Modernist Views], at Museu do Chiado
2000 - Valencia (Spain) - De la Antropofagia a Brasília: Brasil 1920-1950 [From Anthropophagy to Brasília: Brazil 1920-1950], at IVAM. Centre Julio González
Source: Itaú Cultural
