Nonê de Andrade (São Paulo SP 1914 - Guarujá SP 1972)
Painter, writer, draftsman, set designer, journalist, musician, teacher.
José Oswald Antônio de Andrade, son of the writer Oswald de Andrade (1890 - 1954), became known as Nonê de Andrade. During the 1920s, he made several study trips to Europe and the Middle East. In 1924, he visited the historic towns of Minas Gerais with his father and friends such as the painter Tarsila do Amaral (1886 - 1973) and the writers Mário de Andrade (1893 - 1945) and Blaise Cendrars (1887 - 1961). He returned to Switzerland, where he continued his studies. He returned to Brazil for good in 1929. He studied painting with Candido Portinari (1903 - 1962) between 1931 and 1934, and with Anita Malfatti (1889 - 1964) and Lasar Segall (1891 - 1957) between 1934 and 1936. At that time, he took part in the Clube dos Artistas Modernos - CAM [Modern Artists Club] and collaborated with the Teatro da Experiência [Experience Theater], created by Flávio de Carvalho (1899 - 1973). In the 1950s, he joined the Grupo Guanabara, whose members included Manabu Mabe (1924 - 1997) and Takashi Fukushima (1950), among others. He also worked as an editor for the newspaper A Gazeta, among others, and wrote children's literature, such as O Saci que Foi à Lua [The Saci Who Went to the Moon]. He was director of the Museu de Artes e Técnicas Populares [Museum of Popular Arts and Techniques] and of the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo. Researchers highlight in his production his identification with the first Brazilian modernists and his closeness to Surrealism. In 1982, the exhibition Nonê de Andrade, Dez Anos Depois [Nonê de Andrade, Ten Years Later] took place at Spazio Pirandello, São Paulo. A retrospective of his work was held at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo - MAC/USP in 1990.
Critical Commentary
In Retrato de Waldo, Meu Pai [Portrait of Waldo, My Father], c. 1950, the figure, conceived with great formal simplification, stands out against the dark-colored background. The artist uses a free, textured brushstroke. As the art educator Ana Mae Barbosa points out, an important aspect of his work is the influence of Surrealism, as in O Avarento [The Miser], 1968, which reveals a character at once ironic and sentimental. The artist showed interest in the production of Walter Lewy (1905 - 1995) and Tarsila do Amaral (1886 - 1973). In the opinion of art historian Walter Zanini, Oswald de Andrade Filho kept his spirit faithful to the nationalist ideology of the first modernists.
Critiques
"Andrade Filho has no relatives in Brazil. Behind his canvases I see the André Lhote of 'Parlons Peinture' or certain knowing poems that Luc Durtain wrote about São Paulo. But within the frame of the portrait of Rossine, that blue portrait so pure and so sensitive, pastel or tempera, I feel certain poems by Jean Cocteau, such as the one that begins: 'Les anges vous saluent, Marie'."
Sérgio Milliet
PONTUAL, Roberto. Dicionário das artes plásticas no Brasil. Apresentação de Antônio Houaiss. Textos de Mário Barata et al. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1969.
"He was, above all, a painter, practicing easel and mural painting within his customary attitude of 'defense of a Brazilian art, with roots in the people, in folklore, as the greatest and richest source of inspiration for the artist'. His art combines surrealist and primitivist ingredients, placing itself under the deep and striking influence of his father's anthropophagy. The elaboration is refined, both in the stylistic expression of ideas and emotions and in the technical execution, which is of a high standard."
José Roberto Teixeira Leite
LEITE, José Roberto Teixeira. Dicionário crítico da pintura no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Artlivre, 1988.
Solo Exhibitions
1945 - Solo, at IAB
1948 - Solo, at IAB
1948 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Domus
1961 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria da Aliança Francesa
1965 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte São Luiz
1966 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Atrium
1970 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Biblioteca da PUC/RJ
Group Exhibitions
1935 - São Paulo SP - 2º Salão Paulista de Belas Artes [2nd São Paulo Fine Arts Salon]
1935 - São Paulo SP - 3º Salão Paulista de Belas Artes [3rd São Paulo Fine Arts Salon]
1936 - São Paulo SP - 4º Salão Paulista de Belas Artes [4th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon] - bronze medal
1937 - São Paulo SP - 1º Salão de Maio [1st May Salon], at Esplanada Hotel de São Paulo
1938 - São Paulo SP - 2º Salão de Maio [2nd May Salon]
1939 - São Paulo SP - 3º Salão de Maio [3rd May Salon]
1939 - São Paulo SP - 5º Salão do Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos [5th Salon of the Visual Artists' Union]
1940 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Salão Nacional de Belas Artes [National Salon of Fine Arts] - honorable mention
1940 - São Paulo SP - 7º Salão Paulista de Belas Artes [7th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon] - silver medal
1941 - São Paulo SP - 1º Salão de Arte da Feira Nacional das Indústrias [1st Art Salon of the National Industries Fair]
1942 - São Paulo SP - 7º Salão do Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos [7th Salon of the Visual Artists' Union], at Galeria Prestes Maia
1944 - Belo Horizonte MG - Exposição de Arte Moderna [Modern Art Exhibition], at Edifício Mariana
1944 - São Paulo SP - Exposição de Pintura Moderna Brasileira-Norte-Americana [Brazilian-North American Modern Painting Exhibition], at Galeria Prestes Maia
1945 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Artistas Plásticos do Partido Comunista [Visual Artists of the Communist Party], at Casa do Estudante
1945 - São Paulo SP - Anita Malfatti, Virgínia Artigas, Clóvis Graciano, Mick Carnicelli, Oswald de Andrade Filho, José Pancetti, Carlos Prado, Francisco Rebolo, Quirino da Silva, Alfredo Volpi, Mário Zanini, at Galeria Itapetininga
1947 - São Paulo SP - Bonadei, Di Cavalcanti, Noêmia Mourão, Lothar Charoux, Oswald de Andrade Filho, Lúcia Suané, César Lacanna, Mário Zanini and Raphael Galvez, at Galeria Itapetininga
1951 - São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo International Biennial, at Pavilhão do Trianon
1952 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exposição de Artistas Brasileiros [Exhibition of Brazilian Artists], at MAM/RJ
1952 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1953 - São Paulo SP - 2nd São Paulo International Biennial, at Pavilhão dos Estados
1954 - São Paulo SP - Arte Contemporânea: exposição do acervo do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo [Contemporary Art: Exhibition of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Collection], at MAM/SP
1955 - São Paulo SP - 3rd São Paulo International Biennial, at Pavilhão das Nações
1955 - São Paulo SP - 4th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at Galeria Prestes Maia - bronze medal
1955 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th National Salon of Modern Art
1957 - São Paulo SP - 6th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at Galeria Prestes Maia - small silver medal
1958 - São Paulo SP - 4ª Coletiva do Grupo Guanabara [4th Grupo Guanabara Group Show]
1958 - São Paulo SP - 47 Artistas do Prêmio Leirner de Arte Contemporânea [47 Artists of the Leirner Prize for Contemporary Art], at Galeria de Arte das Folhas
1959 - São Paulo SP - 5ª Coletiva do Grupo Guanabara [5th Grupo Guanabara Group Show]
1959 - São Paulo SP - 5th São Paulo International Biennial, at MAM/SP
1960 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1961 - São Paulo SP - 10th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1961 - São Paulo SP - 6th São Paulo International Biennial, at MAM/SP
1966 - São Paulo SP - Três Premissas [Three Premises], at MAB/Faap
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1968 - Salvador BA - 2ª Bienal Nacional de Artes Plásticas [2nd National Visual Arts Biennial]
1969 - São Paulo SP - 1st Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1970 - São Paulo SP - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo 1970, at Pinacoteca do Estado
Posthumous Exhibitions
1972 - São Paulo SP - A Semana de 22: antecedentes e consequências [The 1922 Week: Background and Consequences], at Masp
1976 - São Paulo SP - Os Salões: da Família Artística Paulista, de Maio e do Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos de São Paulo [The Salons: of the Família Artística Paulista, of May and of the São Paulo Visual Artists' Union], at Museu Lasar Segall
1982 - São Paulo SP - Do Modernismo à Bienal [From Modernism to the Biennial], at MAM/SP
1982 - São Paulo SP - Exposição Nonê de Andrade Dez Anos Depois [Nonê de Andrade Exhibition Ten Years Later], at Spazio Pirandello
1990 - São Paulo SP - Retrospectiva [Retrospective], at MAC/USP
1991 - São Paulo SP - 21st São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1992 - São Paulo SP - Grupo Guanabara: 1950-1959, at Renato Magalhães Gouvêa Escritório de Arte
2002 - São Paulo SP - Modernismo: da Semana de 22 à seção de arte de Sérgio Milliet [Modernism: From the 1922 Week to Sérgio Milliet's Art Section], at CCSP
2004 - São Paulo SP - Novas Aquisições: 1995 - 2003 [New Acquisitions: 1995 - 2003], at MAB/Faap
Source: Itaú Cultural
