The esthetic of wonder in the collections of Jacque, Lina and Emanoel collections of popular arte

Abstract

The analysis focuses on the trajectories of three art collectors with different profiles.  Jacque Van de Beuque was a French artist born in 1922 who tried to forget the war horror in Brazil and gathered a collection that gave birth to the Casa do Portal Museum. Lina Bo Bardi, an Italian architect born in 1914, arrived in Brazil invited by Assis Chateaubriand to build the Museum of Art of São Paulo and went to live a number of years in Salvador during the time she constituted her collection of Brazilian popular art. Finally, Emanoel Araújo, a Bahia Recôncavo born artist (1940), who hames a large collection of art objects, which gave rise to the Afro Brazil Museum (São Paulo).  The goal of this article is to evaluate the role performed by those collectors and exercised  the museums in the discourse formation on popular art through the selection and classification of the artists and their works, and, afterwards, at the definition of which objects were remarkable in the collections. Our comparisons will take into account how each of them saw the São Francisco river carrancas created by Master Francisco Biquica Guarany.