OS PRIMEIROS PASSOS NA XILOGRAVURA: FRANCISCO STOCKINGER

Abstract

This paper intends to emphasize the artist and his representation of the red-light district in Rio de Janeiro, the Mangue, and his beginnings in the production of woodcuts on wooden blocks. Stockinger sought to reflect a city within the city, with lots of light, lots of movement and the hard work of the women of the Mangue, generating a series of woodcuts of the Mangue, which clearly show the importance he gave to the work of prostitutes. His woodcuts are mirrors of the social reality of an era.