Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Adriana Anselmo de. Maria Emília Araújo: An artist of colors, memories and travels. Estúdio [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.29, pp.20-30.  Epub Mar 31, 2020. ISSN 1647-6158.

In the mid-twentieth century, a group of young avant-garde artists started a movement to modernize Portuguese tiles. In the 1950s, a large number of works by Portuguese ceramic artists are associated with architectural projects. At the Viúva Lamego Factory, a group of ceramic artists began to gather, starting with Jorge Barradas and soon associating Manuel Carga leiro and Querubim Lapa and later also Maria Emília Araújo, signing Mariaújo. Born in Porto on 06/08/1940, she develops a rich production of tiles within the line of modernity of the other members of the VL group. The power of the compositions of her work derives for the most part from her inventive research into techniques of tile production. This article seeks to present an analysis of some works by Maria Emília Araújo. These are seen as fragments of memories lived and worked on and adopted by her for her aesthetic goals. Two main aspects stand out: her memories of living as a woman and the experience of the countries where she lived, Portugal and Brazil, but also Venezuela, Curaçau, and her passion for the tropics with all the hybridity of cultures and arts.

Keywords : Mariaújo; tiles; memory; colors; modernism.

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