Models in Art: 200 Years of Rio de Janeiro's Academy of Fine Arts

Data limite: 17 de Abril
VII Seminar of Museu D. João VI, V Colloquium of Studies about Brazilian art of the 19th century. Brazil’s National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 12 – 14, 2016.
In 2016, 200 years will have passed since the arrival in Rio de Janeiro of the “French artistic mission”, and the subsequent creation of the Royal School of Sciences Arts and Trade by Royal Decree of August 12th 1816. This date not only marks the 200 years of Rio de Janeiro’s Academy of Fine Arts (later to become UFRJ’s School of Fine Arts), but the very beginning of organized artistic teaching in Brazil. In order to celebrate it, the research groups Entresséculos (PPGAV/EBA/UFRJ) and DezenoveVinte (UFRRJ and CEFET/RJ), with the support of Brazil’s National Museum of Fine Arts [Museu Nacional de Belas Artes], are working together to organize a major international academic event.
Present academic gathering to further the current status of the research about Rio de Janeiro’s Academy of Fine Arts [Academia de Belas Artes], encouraging Brazilian and foreign researchers to present original unpublished papers and posters representing innovative perspectives on the above-mentioned thematic axes. Attract researchers from abroad who have been reflecting, as we have, about the function and practices of their own Academies’ or similar institutions – and whose work represents significant contributions to the general historiography about this theme, especially in regards to the four above-mentioned thematic axes, about which we shall give more details below.
i) Models of teaching – the theoretical and practical structures of Academic teaching methods and their relationship with European models regarding tradition and/or modernity: the different structures and teaching methods in the Academy; the diversity of exercises, student competitions, and didactic collections of prints, plaster casts, copies and photographs; the role of libraries. ii) Models of representation – the participation of academies and art schools in the projects for building national identities: models for historic narration, the construction of landscape, the representation of people and the question of race; the differences between artistic-cultural projects during different political regimes; comparative studies about the construction of the idea of “nation” in other countries. iii) Models of action – the structuring of the artistic field in cities in which academies and art schools were based: from within their scope, by the creation of official exhibitions or Salons; and outside the academic mainstream, as a more autonomous artistic milieu slowly developed, with artists’ studios, art galleries, exhibitions, periodical press, art criticism; comparative studies about similar situations in cities from other countries. iv) Models of collections – the creation and development of the collections of academies and art schools and the policies implemented for establishing public art collections, as well as incentives for private collections: donations, acquisitions, collections exhibited during the “Exposições Gerais”, the establishment of private collections.
Proposals: oral presentations; posters. Proposals accepted in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
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