Breve histórico sobre a arte de calcetaria em Portugal e no Brasil: o caso do mosaico português

Resumen

This is an outline history of urban pavement, specially the so called portuguese mosaic. The traditional mosaic has its origin on the ancient oriental world. While it is rich in details, the Portuguese one transforms details in the main motif. Arising from Portugal from the XlXth century, the portuguese mosaic was exported to Brazil during the begining of the XXth, when many of its artists went to the their colonies and old colonies. By that time, artist and executor were always the same person, that is an humble worker without social recognition. But since Burle Marx draw Rios's sidewalks on the frontwaters in the 60th, tendence is to value the architect role. Actually portuguese mosaic is commonly used on brazilians sidewalks, but very often on the bad way. It can both contribute to the town's visual pollution (when each one makes what he wants) and rescue the blocks unity (when portuguese mosaic is studied as a whole treatment)