O mar na obra escultórica de João Fragoso

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Carolina Maria, 1988-
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/15742
• topic: Fragoso, João, 1913-2000; Escultura; Mar; Arte figurativa; Arte abstracta; Arte Minimal; Poética

The purpose of this study is to create a small monographic note concerning the life and poetry of the sculptor João Fragoso. In this context, it tries to give special emphasis to the Sea, constant theme of these works, which seems to emerge as a consequence of the reality experienced by the author, to remaining as an analogy of the human existential dimension. Starting from the Portuguese sea, Fragoso aims to achieve a deeper and more generalized scale, expressed in his sculpture, validating it as true Work of Art: timeless and universal. For this, we analyze some of the works corresponding to the three stylistic phases that this sculptor ran through, in particular: figurative, abstract and minimal, resulting from the poetic to do so remains a reflection of the different languages as well as techniques and materials used. Additionally it also seeks to determine the set of sculptural and poetic references, related work as public ordering, and teaching activity exerted by João Fragoso in Fine - Arts of Lisbon, as fundamental elements for this investigation. João Fragoso was a Portuguese sculptor of the "second generation" of statuary, in the 30s, reaching special national and international recognition for his abstract work, under a poetic feature of author between 1954 and 1958, in which João Fragoso explores the maritime theme, linked to culture and national tradition, as a figurative, symbolic and evocative element and transcendent transfiguration of human existential space