About Bajado, an artist from Olinda

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from the thesis Bajado and the invention of the Manguegeek Movement, presented to the Postgraduate Program in History of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (PPGH-UFRPE), and aims to present and record facts about the life and work of the artist Euclides Francisco Amâncio, known as Bajado, An Artist from Olinda. The research had as its main objective to deconstruct the perspective that Bajado is a naïf artist in order to understand him as a precursor of Pop Art, in addition to being circumscribed in an investigation based on bibliographic review and documentary analysis in magazines, newspapers, videos, music, poems and photographs, as well as the artist’s own compositions. It is understood that Bajado participated in the construction of the identity of the Historic Site of Olinda in parallel with politicians, intellectuals and artists of the Pernambuco avant-garde. The relevance of this chronological outline of the life and work of the artist in question is highlighted in order to instrumentalize investigations in the field of art history, given that many diffuse and controversial narratives circulate in the context of attempts to tell their stories.