By Olivier de Sagazan.
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Mechanical Head (Spirit of Our Age) - Raoul Hausmann, c. 1920
![Arthur Bispo do Rosário (Japaratuba, Sergipe, 1911 - Rio de Janeiro, 1989). Visual artist. Moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1925, where he served in the Brazilian Navy and the electric utility, Light. In 1938, after a mystical delirium, he presented himself to a monastery, which sent him to the Hospital dos Alienados in the suburb of Praia Vermelha. Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic (it´s a kind of psychosis), he was admitted to the Colônia Juliano Moreira, in the suburb of Jacarepaguá, in Rio de Janeiro. Between 1940 and 1960, he spent alternating periods at the hospice and carrying out tasks in various Rio households. At the start of the 1960s, he was working in the Amiu Paediatric Clinic, where lived in an attic room. While there, he began his works, making various miniatures out of rudimentary materials, such as warships or cars, as well as various embroideries. In 1964, he returned to the Colônia, where he remained until his death. He created around 1,000 pieces using everyday objects such as clothes and embroidered sheets. In 1980, a feature by Samuel Wainer Filho for TV Globo’s Fantástico programme showed Bispo’s output. Two years later, the art critic Frederico Morais included his work in the exhibition À Margem da Vida [At the Edge of Life], at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (MAM/RJ). The artist was featured in various short and medium-length films, in books such as Arthur Bispo do Rosário: o Senhor do Labirinto [Arthur Bispo do Rosário; Lord of the Labyrinth], by Luciana Hidalgo; as well as in plays for the theatre. In 1989, the Artists’ Association of the Colônia Juliano Moreira was founded with a view to preserving his work, which was listed in 1992 by the State Institute of Artistic and Cultural Heritage (Inepac). His output has been collected at the Bispo do Rosário Museum, formerly known as the Nise da Silveira Museum, located in the former Colônia Juliano Moreira.
Some works of Bispo:
(Veleiros/Sailboats - 90x60x36 cm)
(Manto de Apresentação/Apresentation Mantle - 118x141x20 cm)
(Estandarte/Standard -245x130 cm)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lluy41ZikJ1qean7po1_250.jpg)
Arthur Bispo do Rosário (Japaratuba, Sergipe, 1911 - Rio de Janeiro, 1989). Visual artist. Moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1925, where he served in the Brazilian Navy and the electric utility, Light. In 1938, after a mystical delirium, he presented himself to a monastery, which sent him to the Hospital dos Alienados in the suburb of Praia Vermelha. Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic (it´s a kind of psychosis), he was admitted to the Colônia Juliano Moreira, in the suburb of Jacarepaguá, in Rio de Janeiro. Between 1940 and 1960, he spent alternating periods at the hospice and carrying out tasks in various Rio households. At the start of the 1960s, he was working in the Amiu Paediatric Clinic, where lived in an attic room. While there, he began his works, making various miniatures out of rudimentary materials, such as warships or cars, as well as various embroideries. In 1964, he returned to the Colônia, where he remained until his death. He created around 1,000 pieces using everyday objects such as clothes and embroidered sheets. In 1980, a feature by Samuel Wainer Filho for TV Globo’s Fantástico programme showed Bispo’s output. Two years later, the art critic Frederico Morais included his work in the exhibition À Margem da Vida [At the Edge of Life], at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (MAM/RJ). The artist was featured in various short and medium-length films, in books such as Arthur Bispo do Rosário: o Senhor do Labirinto [Arthur Bispo do Rosário; Lord of the Labyrinth], by Luciana Hidalgo; as well as in plays for the theatre. In 1989, the Artists’ Association of the Colônia Juliano Moreira was founded with a view to preserving his work, which was listed in 1992 by the State Institute of Artistic and Cultural Heritage (Inepac). His output has been collected at the Bispo do Rosário Museum, formerly known as the Nise da Silveira Museum, located in the former Colônia Juliano Moreira.
Some works of Bispo:
(Veleiros/Sailboats - 90x60x36 cm)
(Manto de Apresentação/Apresentation Mantle - 118x141x20 cm)
(Estandarte/Standard -245x130 cm)
AACHEN, Hans von. Joking Couple - Copperplate, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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Harry & Liane No.2, 2008. Soft sculpture. Harry, 32 x 14 x 7 cm Liane, 26 x 16 x 9 cm.
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Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (1787-1793), marble sculpture by Antonio Canova.
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Cupid and Psyche in the natural bower by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1792-1793). Detail.
Skulls, 1976 print series by Andy Warhol.
Sigmund Freud writes:
“The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression. I am afraid these explanations of mine are not very wonderful. Perhaps because I am too pessimistic. I have an advertisement floating about in my head which I consider the boldest and most successful piece of American publicity: ‘Why live, if you can be buried for ten dollars?’” (Sigmund Freud in a letter to Marie Bonaparte, 13 August 1937, in Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939).
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (1601-02), Caravaggio.
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