THE SACRED IN THE WORK OF ANTÔNIO BANDEIRA

Abstract

He is considered as one of the first artists to use the Informal Abstraction in Brazil, after his first period participating in the second School of Paris (1946-1951); however, the artistic production of this artist was kept in permanent transit between the figurative and non-geometric branch of the abstraction and between the informal abstraction and the geometric abstraction. And differently from other followers of the informalism, Antônio Bandera kept on giving titles to his works, mainly to the trees and the cathedrals, in which he makes evident mythical and religious singularities. In special through the cathedrals, he ventures on a kind of revisiting of themes similar to those of Paul Klee, Mondrian and Pollock, which are reprocessed, re-coded and updated by him.