Contributions

  • Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - Contributor

Publication

2015 - MASP, São Paulo, Brazil

Language

Portuguese

Word Count

15,000 words, Guess

Page Count

60 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCRC489.A7 H57x 2015

Description

The exhibition presents 100 drawings made by inmates of Psychiatric Hospital of Juquery, located in Franco da Rocha, (São Paulo). The works were part of the collection of Dr. Osório Thaumaturgo Cesar (b. 1895-1979), founder and Director of the fEscola Livre de Artes Plásticas, who worked at the hospital between 1956 and the mid-1970. Dr. Cesar entered as a student at the Psychiatric Hospital of Juquery in 1923 and started working in this institution between 1925 until 1964, when he retired because of military pressure. A noted psychiatrist of Juquery for more than four decades, Dr. Osorio Caesar was one of the pioneers in Brazil to research and apply the use of art as a therapeutic resource in psychiatric patients. He was married to artist Tarsila do Amaral.

Subjects

Topics

ExhibitionsArt therapyArt collectionsArt and mental illnessHospital Psiquiátrico do Juquery (São Paulo, Brazil)

Places

People

Osório Thaumaturgo Cesar (1895-1979)

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