FROM THE EVANGELICAL TEXT TO THE CHISEL: THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS OF THE QUEEN OF THE APOSTLES CHURCH IN LONDRINA

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.9294124180110

• Palavras-chave: Church; Genetic Criticism; Transmutation.

• Keywords: Church; Genetic Criticism; Transmutation.

• Abstract:

  In this article we present the results of an investigation carried out on the wooden frames of the Way of the Cross of the Queen of the Apostles Church, in Londrina, Paraná. With the aim of investigating the artistic and linguistic expressions of the paintings present in the Church, for this text, we bring a selection of the results obtained from the analysis of history and the echo between the biblical text and the artistic reproduction of one of these paintings. These paintings were shaped in a gradual creative process with a strong visual and artistic appeal, which requires an analysis that is both precise and comprehensive in search of bringing to light the entire creative movement, with the help of Genetic Criticism. The artistic work of the Via Crucis paintings is taken from the books of the Bible's gospels and the apocryphal tradition, always with great respect for Catholicism. What is cut out by the artist and takes into consideration, the space to be filled by art, will be analyzed here in its creative capacity by making all the inspiration emerge from the chisel, with a backdrop of the sacred texts of religious tradition, linked to the fact of adorning a church in a region marked by immigration, in a demonstration of work, faith, new beginnings and construction. Therefore, this work demonstrates a creative process made of art and history, of how the transmutation of the biblical text occurred in the paintings of the cross.