Serie de Baldosas
- A propósito de Alvão
As part of the project, I made a Tile series following the portuguese tradition of painting tiled walls after costumbrist photographs. Most of the pictures we can see in the streets show rural scenes or historical representations. Some of the photographies from Alvão´s seires "Levantamiento de las Tierras do Vinho do Porto" were painted in tiles.
In my work, these tiles are inspired by pictures of the two photographic series: "Levantamiento de las Tierras do Vinho do Porto" and "Colonial Exhibition" Serie. These pictures became famous and their protagonist popular.
In this sense, the representation of the female body keeps the same representative mode, although with different stereotypes and is used as a means of reproducing the ideology of the time.
_Drawing from the picture "Dão. Levantamento dos territórios do Vinho do Porto", Alvão, 1933. Four-tile pattern.
_Drawing from the pictures Woman. Levantamento dos territórios do Vinho do Porto, Alvão, 1933 and Guine. Rosinha, Alvão, 1934. Six Tiles
_Drawing from the picture "Interior do Pavilhão da Fábrica. de Fiação e Tecidos Rio Vizela. Lª", Alvão, 1934