Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (Loty)

Who was Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (Loty)?

Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (Loty) was a Brazilian sculptor and poet.

Carlota de Camargo Nascimento and the bust of gipsy

Carlota was born in Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil. She studied in Escola Nacional de Belas Artes under the great master and director of the school Rodolfo Bernardelli, an innovator in the teaching of arts in Brazil.

Carlota de Camargo Nascimento signed her works as Loty. She was one of the pioneering women to do sculpture in Brazil, an art generally confined to the male sex. Her name is included in the Brazilian Dictionary of Artists by Walmyr Ayala and in the bibliography of the Art Exhibitions of the 30's, 40's and 50's.

She received many important prizes in the most prestigious exhibitions in those decades, including the Golden, the Silver and the Bronze Medals of the Salão Nacional de Belas Artes. Among other exhibitions of relevance to the panomora of the arts in the country then, Carlota participated in the 38º Exposição Geral de Belas-artes, also denominated as Salão Revolucionário or Salão of 31.

In 1930, the President Vargas political regime appointed new directors to the areas of Education and Culture: Rodolfo Garcia was nominated director of the Museu Histórico and Biblioteca; ; Luciano Gallet was appointed director for the Music Institute and Lucio Costa was the new director for the School of Fine Arts. Lucio Costa was then only 28 years old, a very risky choice. But, in less than two years, during which he remained as head of the School, he completely revolutionized the teaching of art in Brazil. He organized the Salão de 31, the first official Fine Arts Salon open to modern artists. Lucio was very didactic both in the way he reshaped teaching and as the proposer and organizer of the Salão de 31. In the Salao de 31 he allowed and promoted a comparison between the more academic artists and the moderns, exhibiting their work side by side, thus innovating also in the language of the exhibition itself.