The high point of Baratta’s lecture is his statement that: “We would like to exhibit our art, but it is not fair to show it beside the cotton that Ceará exports but does not spin, the raw wax that is exported unprocessed, the minerals that Ceará exports but does not smelt. On top of all that there is now a new genre: painters who export but do not profit, as in the case of Vicente Leite, [Raimundo] Cela, [Antonio] Bandeira, Inimá [de Paula], Ademir [Martins], and Siqueira.”
[Regarding the SCAP (Sociedade Cearence de Artes Plásticas) and its artist members, see the following articles by Baratta in the ICAA digital archive: “Aldemir Martins e a pintura” (doc. no. 1110782); “De como deve ser visto o binômio Clã-SCAP” (doc. no. 1111385), and “Exposição cearense” (doc. no. 1111388); “Pincéis e violinos” (doc. no. 1110784); and the letter from Mario de Andrade (doc. no. 1110783). See also by José Roberto Teixeira Leite “Raimundo Cela: um pioneiro esquecido” (doc. no. 1110790); and by Ronaldo Brito “Trágico moderno” (doc. no. 1110423). On the subject of Ceará, see by Vera Lúcia Alburquerque de Moraes “Abrindo a revista” (doc. no. 1110770); by Aluízio Medeiros “Uma exposição e a história de dois grupos” (doc. no. 1110776); and by Barboza Leite (untitled) [“A arte preside o destino da humanidade (…)”] (doc. no. 1110786)].