Conjunto da Obra

A Mão da Moça (The Hand of the Girl)

Arte ou Similar (Art or Similar)

Figura (Figure)

Imagens de Urgência (Urgency Images)

Mandinga

Portraits

Imagem de Urgência, 1970

Esmalte sintético sobre aglomerado, 122.00 X 90.00 X 0.00

Works, Series and Collections: Imagens de Urgência (Urgency Images)

Imagem de Urgência

Urgency Images

My commentary

 

The figure which is repeated here, and in other paintings, framing their top or their bottom, is the portrait of Dr. Armando Marcondes Machado Junior, then president of the Association of State Attorneys of São Paulo, placed there, as watching my deeds, by the admiration of this man of coherent and courageous positions.

Together we went through a remarkable adventure, funny tonowaday, reported by Dr. Armando, fondly called Armandinho, in an interview he gave to the São Paulo State Prosecutors Union Newspaper in 1998, whose excerpt I reply here:

 

"JS - How did the Association, which had no resources, manage to carry out such an event? (Refers to the the Congress for Public Advocacy, 1969).

 

Armando - Professor Hely Lopes Meirelles, then Secretary of Justice, contributed to the viability of this first Congress. I got sponsorship for the posters and the cocktail. The poster, incredible as it may seem, was the one that gave me the most headache. It would be printed free of charge at the graphics office of the Secretary of Tourism, which rejected the first work of the graphic artist we hired, Gabriel Borba Filho, because they understood that the poster had communist connotations. Borba accepted it back and made another one, which was promptly accepted".