Análise de representações negras na pintura paraense na primeira metade do Século XX e o ensino de arte: perspectiva à aplicação da Lei 10.639/2003

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the black presence in the painting by local artists in the first half of the twentieth century. Assumes that to understand the presence of African descent in the local segment is essential to seek indicative of representations of this segment and how such representations are appropriate visibility to establish the identity of African descent. The methodology adopted in this study involved research collections of museum institutions of Belém, on the occurrence of paintings of artists of the Pará with production aimed at black representation, especially the artists Antoinette Feio, Waldemar da Costa and Dahlia Dea. This fieldwork was essential to establish the selection of which tables and authors subsidize enter the theme of Afro-Brazilian representation in painting site. The relevance of this research to the field of Art / Afro-Brazilian Culture and the provisions of law 10.639/2003 is the ability to reflect on the presence of blacks in the local society, as it considers the extent of cultural and socio-historical phenomenon can to dismantle eurocentric conceptions of epistemological frameworks and visual representation. In this perspective, black participation and their proper contextualization will build new discourses about the visibility of African descent in the History of Art and Culture Pará.