A Escola Municipal de Belas Artes de Caxias do Sul : histórias e memórias (1949 a 1967)

Abstract

The Municipal School of fine arts of Caxias do Sul: stories and memories (1949 to 1967) dissertation, investigated the history of the Municipal School of fine arts of Caxias do Sul in the period between the years of 1949, the year of its creation, and 1967, when it was, along with other colleges, incorporated to form the University of Caxias do Sul. The central objective of the research is to narrate a significant part of its building process and dynamic organization, from its institutionalization until its establishment as an institution and its development. The Cultural History bases the analyses produced from diverse documents, found dispersed in a set of locations and collections, such as newspapers, photos, reports and minutes, which helps to compose the tessitura of this study. Therefore, the methodological procedures were documental analysis. A certain chronology has been chosen to describe the historical process. The study was divided into three chapters. The first chapter tells how the city of Caxias do Sul was formed, how its immigration process contributed to the understanding of cultural issues, education, art and the pursuit of modernization. It could be identified two things in this process. First, the arrival of the colonizers and their ingenuity that it wouldn’t be so difficult to establish in the new land .The other was that realizing the difficulties, the fighting spirit guaranteed their survival in this new land. The second chapter presents the movements around the foundation of the school, its protagonists, the city as a receptacle of this space and the receptivity of the population, the presence of a very large administrative politic force. The school was not "embraced" by the Church. Was the municipality that has created its own legislation, respecting the specificities of identified School of art. In the third chapter the EMBA becomes a higher level course and, besides participating in the Constitution of the University of Caxias do Sul, takes a key role in irradiation of art and culture in Caxias do Sul. The EMBA was welcomed and encouraged by the society that understood it as relevant. Participation in school and the teaching of art were considered as differential in the construction of knowledge. The EMBA represents the memory of a part of the history of education in Caxias do Sul, higher education in particular. The creation of an educational institution of art stimulated the access and enjoyment to the universe of art in the mid-20th century in Caxias do Sul.