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Woodcut illustration: in the Cariri and Fortaleza regions

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https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2025.12.9923

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Woodcut illustration: in the Cariri and Fortaleza regions

We studied the aesthetic and technical aspects of woodcut illustration productions in commercial advertisements in the Cariri and Fortaleza regions between 1900 and 1990. The basis of this research, with regard to engraving, is in line with Gilmar de Carvalho and Sebastião de Paula. Martine Joly analyzed the images. The main question of this work was: is it possible that the production of woodcut illustrations in the Cariri region of Ceará and in Fortaleza could have the same or similar aesthetic and technical quality as the artistic aspect? In general, we sought to investigate the characteristics of some woodcut productions aimed at illustration in the service of commercial advertisements in the Cariri and Fortaleza regions. Specifically, we studied the technical aspects of the production of woodcut illustrations in the Cariri and Fortaleza regions; and we analyzed comparatively whether the woodcut illustrations have the same or similar technical quality in the aesthetic aspects of composition, engraving and printing. This is a research on art with a qualitative approach, initiated from a bibliographic survey in different sources: a) academic: monograph, thesis; b) books; c) semi-structured interviews with artists and art teachers from Crato, Juazeiro do Norte and Fortaleza and concluded with the analysis of two commercial illustration woodcut images. In the final considerations, we found that illustration prints present good technical quality, are well suited to the themes used as promotional material; in the technical and aesthetic aspects they are not inferior to the prints considered art, thus they are not a lesser expression.

Keywords: engraving; illustration woodcut; illustration.

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Francisco Sebastião de Paula, Instituto Federal de Educação e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE) / Rosa Saraiva de Paula e Custódio Sebastião de Paula

Professor de Artes com Dedicação Exclusiva no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE). Doutor em Artes pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Mestre em Educação na Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE). Especializado em Arte e Educação no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE). Licenciado em Música pela Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE). Pesquisador no Grupo ARTE UM (CNPQ) no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE). Artista Visual com participação em várias exposições individuais, coletivas, obtendo premiações no Brasil e no exterior. Estudou xilogravura e gravura em metal com Eduardo Eloy no Museu de Arte da Universidade Federal do Ceará (MAUC), workshops de gravura em metal com Artur Luiz Piza, Carlos Martins, xilogravura com Francorli na Oficina do MAUC-UFC; workshop de desenho com Carlos Fajardo na Secretaria de Cultura do Ceará (SECULT).

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2025-04-09

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Vol. 12 No. 01 (2025): Art&Sensorium

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