The palette and the brush under the founding myth construction

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  • Susana Bleil de Souza Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2008v15n20p155

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to examine how part of the intellectual and political Uruguayan elites was concerned about the orientalization of the Uruguayan National State and undertook the consolidation the national conscience through intellectual and artistic works. Though each art has its own language, Juan Manuel Blanes strived to express through painting the unrest of his time: to paint a nation in construction. Blanes created pictoric symbols of the nationality and invented an iconographic past. He quested for the genesis of the Uruguayan nationalism in the independence fights against Brasil and constructed the frame for the national imagery, the symbolic subsidy for the idea of a nation that the thoughtful elite strived to build up.

Author Biography

Susana Bleil de Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Professora do Departamento de História da UFRGS.

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2009-04-16

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Souza, S. B. de. (2009). The palette and the brush under the founding myth construction. Esboços: Histories in Global Contexts, 15(20), 155–168. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2008v15n20p155

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Vol. 15 No. 20 (2008)

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