Experiencias de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846-1905) en Brasil: O Mosquito (1875-1877)

Resumen

The decision of the Portuguese caricaturist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro to go to work in Brazil in 1875 presented challenges and important experiences for the career of the artist. In his performance in the illustrated and satirical newspaper O Mosquito (1869-1877) he had to dialogue and conquer the public of a country that, although culturally close to Portugal, had its peculiarities. He lived with other caricaturists, shared experiences and experimented with a competitive journalism, sometimes hostile to his “foreign” status. From the concept of “cultural transfer” which proposes to analyze the relations between Latin America and Europe under a non-hierarchical perspective, but as “multilateral interchanges”(COMPAGNON, 2005), the proposal of the article is to analyze some of Bordalo’s strategies in his early moments in Brazil, as well his dialogues with other artists and illustrated periodicals.

dialogues with other artists and illustrated periodicals