“Father and builder of Brazilian art” - The Academy of Fine Arts in the reform of the education promoted by Benjamin Constant in 1890/1891

• Autor(a) principal: Dazzi, Camila
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital do LAV ( Laboratório de Artes Visuais)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revislav/article/view/6536
• topic: Reform of the Academy of Fine Arts; Educational Reform of Benjamin Constant; Artistic Education; Reforma da Academia das Belas Artes; Reforma da Educação de Benjamin Constant; Ensino Artístico

In the course of the 1880s the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil) was the target of negative reviews on the part of art critics and some of its own teachers, students and directors: they demanded an urgent reform of the structure and teaching methods of the institution. With the advent of the Republic, in November of 1889, the desired reform began to become a reality through the appointment of a commission responsible to design a reform project for the Academy. After many debates during 1890 on how reform should be conducted, the Minister of Public Instruction, Posts and Telegraphs, Benjamin Constant, approved with Decree 983, the Statutes of the National School of Fine Arts, on November 8 of the same year. This paper presents the 'Reform of 1890' as part of the Educational Reform of Benjamin Constant, acted in the years 1890 and 1891.