A produção de painéis em mosaico no período pós-guerra em São Paulo

The production of artistic pannels in the buildings of brasilian modernism is the result of one of the principles that define modern architecture: the principle of integration of arts. That production, which, in São Paulo, almost concentrates in the period post second world war, has some specifities which distinguish it from the proposal of mosaic modern art renovation in europe, more specifically, the mosaic schools of Ravena and Paris. The most important cause of this difference is explained by the raising of brasilian industry in the post war period, with the production and consumption of new materials for architecture revetment which are adopted by modern architects One of those materials, the porcelain or glass tablet, was the most frequent material used in the creation of artistic pannels. The production of those pannels was almost always made by industries, unlike the european mosaics quoted above, which were strictly produced in an artisanal way. This fact will grant São Paulo Modern Mosaics some differences of plastic character which give a sense of unity to the ensemble of their production, in the context of brasilian modernism: with very flat surfaces, in which the modular and industrial material doesn’t hide, mosaic modern pannels are a new symbol of brasilian modernity.