Amateur by Vocation: Painting as Serious Leisure

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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v10i1.26128

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amateur, art, painting, serious leisure, vocation

Abstract

Amateur painting is commonly associated with a practice that is carried out for simple pleasure and in an uncompromising way. Such a lack of commitment to the art system gives to the expression “amateur painter” often a derogatory meaning. The idea that different types of amateur painters should not be included  in a unique definition is supported in the article. It emerges that there is a specific type of amateur painter that differs from the others, which we call “amateur by vocation”. Based on the concept of “serious leisure”, the text aims to characterize this specific type of amateur painter. Starting from the hypothesis that, even not aiming at professionalization, the amateur painter by vocation differs from the others by seeking an identity sign in his work. In this type of amateur there is a propensity to seek systematically historical, technical and conceptual knowledge in order to improve his work.

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Author Biographies

João Batista Freitas Cardoso, Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul (USCS)

PhD in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil), with a postdoctoral degree from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (Brazil). Professor at the Master Course in Communication at the Municipal University of São Caetano do Sul (Brazil). Visiting Professor at the Master in Social Projects at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Mexico). Professor at the Communication and Literature Center at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Brazil). Leader of the Signo Visual nas Mídias Research Group (www.signovisualnasmidias.com), registered with the CNPq since 2005. He was coordinator of the WG Discourse and Communication, of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, 2010-2016, and coordinator of the WG Interactional Practices and Languages ​​in Communication, of the Association of Graduate Programs of Brazil, 2012-2017.

Fabrizio Dell’Arno, Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA)

Professor and coordinator of the Painting course at the RUFA Rome University of Fine Arts; graduated in Advertising and Communication from the USCS University, took a postgraduate Latu Sensu course in Art History from the FAAP University, studied Painting and Drawing at the SVA School Visual Arts in New York and in Italy obtained a Master in Sculpture. His artistic work is directly related to the teaching of art, his painting is conceived as a process of artistic learning, allowing the return to icons as passages that precede representation. Its exhibition activities include galleries, public spaces, museum collections and artistic residencies; some more significant projects such as Historical Illustrations for the Ministry of Culture of the Sultanate of Oman and the campaign for Italian road safety Guida la tua vita, promoted by the ASTM/SIAS group, Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and in collaboration with the United Nations.

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17-05-2023

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CARDOSO, J. B. F.; DELL’ARNO, F. Amateur by Vocation: Painting as Serious Leisure. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 1, 2023. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v10i1.26128. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/26128. Acesso em: 21 dec. 2024.

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023): Dossier “Insurgent Dramaturgies and Epistemologies in Dance” ; Articles

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