Bajado e a invenção do Movimento Manguegeek

Abstract

Bajado or Euclides Francisco Amâncio was born in Maraial, in 1912 and died in Olinda in 1996. The construction of his visual identity, as an artist, is shaped by the influence of Comics and Cinema. Posterist, letterer and painter, he had a vast production that ranged from the decoration of commercial establishments, in his incipient phase, to large works on canvas and eucathex. In his heyday, acclaimed by critics, with works in several exhibitions in Brazil and in the abroad, becoming a true celebrity of his time and leading popular culture in Pernambuco, especially in Olinda, as a stronghold of the world's artistic avant-garde. Having a great influence on carnival artistic productions in the city of Olinda, there is a risk of its importance falling into popular oblivion, which becomes the problem that drives this research, whose objective is, with historical documentation, to shed light on its importance. In addition, with the analyzes of current artistic productions referenced by his works, he continues his artistic legacy led by new social agents of the present time. To achieve this, we adopted a research method based on bibliographic review and documentary analysis in magazines, newspapers, videos, music, poetry and photographs, as well as the artist's own compositions. The result of this research was the contact with the wealth and breadth of cultural, symbolic and even social capital that both ratify the artist as an exponent of Pernambuco's pop culture and stimulate the spread of new productions guided by cultural industry references coined by the artist. With this, our conclusion is that it is neither hyperbolic nor presumptuous to say that Bajado constitutes a precursor of Pop Art in the Pernambuco scene and in the national artistic amalgam.