Considerações sobre a arte Afro-Brasileira

Abstract

This job investigates some examples of the plastic production of black Afro-Brazilian artists from the beginning of the republic to contemporary art. We consider the social relations that for centuries marginalized the Brazilian black people and seek to understand how this exclusion allowed the consolidation of an art that gives voice to at least half of the population of Brazil. This work has the purpose of investigating works by black artists to raise questions about the cultural legacy of black people in Brazilian society. Although its significance was disregarded in the past, nowadays African Brazilian art and its agents remain powerful and are still bringing new directions, inspirations and discussions related to the African diaspora, based on contemporary African Brazilian poetics that (trans)form citizenship.