Janelas do cerrado para o mundo: o movimento Urban Sketchers.

Abstract

The research analyzes the international movement of designers Urban Sketchers through their drawings, sketches and graphic diaries. It seeks to understand it in the Cerrado region of Goiás, particularly through the analysis of graphic readings of some urban spaces in the City of Goiás, made by designers with different views of the city. The main objective of the study was to reflect on this new aesthetic as a contemporary cultural activity, governing and revealing urban environments, through personal visual readings. Subjects such as the sketch of customs, the phenomenon of modernity, the break with the aura of art, the reading of urban space and the decoding of images from texts by philosophers Charles Baudelaire (1996), Marshall Berman (1986), were investigated. Walter Benjamin (2012), Gordon Cullen (2015), João Gomes Filho (2008), respectively. The method of graphic analysis and formalistic reading of images (influenced by semiotics) was applied to a series of drawings of the landscape of the City of Goiás executed by Willian John Burchell (in the 19th century) and by two correspondents of the Urban Sketchers movement: Fernando Simon and Jota Clewton (21st century). The images were interpreted in a particular and comparative way (between the aforementioned temporalities). The study indicates the understanding of the images reported as producers of record, memory and history of the place and the movement as a collective of graphic readers of the urban environment.