J. Carlos originais
Sinopse
The book accounts for the unique genius of cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer J. Carlos (Jose Carlos de Brito e Cunha. 1884-1950), an artist from Rio de Janeiro in privileged moments, in which drawing has already left the drawing board, but has not yet gained, with printing, its final form. Exposing and publishing them here with possible imperfections, overlapping strokes, notes and evident marks of the hand of their creator has less to do with an improbable cult of the unique object, which is completely foreign to the graphic arts, than with the possibility of revealing part of your creative process. This can only be reconstituted today thanks to the tireless effort of his third son, Eduardo Augusto de Brito e Cunha, responsible for assembling for decades the originals that make up the collection since 2015 under the custody of the Iconography department of the Moreira Salles Institute. Between 1902, when he saw his name printed for the first time, and 1950, the year he died, J. Carlos published more than 50 thousand drawings. There were caricatures, cartoons, cartoons, illustrations, letters - capitulars, titles, headings -, vignettes, ornaments, advertising pieces, in short, everything that is possible to do with a pencil, pen and brush to be printed. With half a dozen meaningless exceptions, everything he designed in 48 years of work was to be published in magazines, newspapers and books. J. Carlos also did sculpture, wrote vaudeville plays, wrote lyrics for samba and was a major talent in Brazilian Art Deco graphic design.
Sinopse
The book accounts for the unique genius of cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer J. Carlos (Jose Carlos de Brito e Cunha. 1884-1950), an artist from Rio de Janeiro in privileged moments, in which drawing has already left the drawing board, but has not yet gained, with printing, its final form. Exposing and publishing them here with possible imperfections, overlapping strokes, notes and evident marks of the hand of their creator has less to do with an improbable cult of the unique object, which is completely foreign to the graphic arts, than with the possibility of revealing part of your creative process. This can only be reconstituted today thanks to the tireless effort of his third son, Eduardo Augusto de Brito e Cunha, responsible for assembling for decades the originals that make up the collection since 2015 under the custody of the Iconography department of the Moreira Salles Institute. Between 1902, when he saw his name printed for the first time, and 1950, the year he died, J. Carlos published more than 50 thousand drawings. There were caricatures, cartoons, cartoons, illustrations, letters - capitulars, titles, headings -, vignettes, ornaments, advertising pieces, in short, everything that is possible to do with a pencil, pen and brush to be printed. With half a dozen meaningless exceptions, everything he designed in 48 years of work was to be published in magazines, newspapers and books. J. Carlos also did sculpture, wrote vaudeville plays, wrote lyrics for samba and was a major talent in Brazilian Art Deco graphic design.