Barrados: simbologia da listra através da pintura

Abstract

The work here presented is a historical, conceptual and artistic analysis of the stripe symbology in the medieval west, considering that this theme was established based on the book “The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes” by Michel Pastoureau (1991). Thus, the present investigation seeks to review the cultural and social roots of this visual pattern, presenting it in a critical and reflective way. Therefore, it is a practical and theoretical study based on a bibliographic and documentary survey, artistic references and concepts from the field of painting, such as the notions of “painting beyond painting”, “pictorial thinking” and “the extended field”. In addition, as an artistic development of this research, a quadriptych of paintings interfaced with printed photography, called “Barrados” is presented. This work aims to highlight some groups marginalized by medieval society, while highlighting the presence of the stripe in their representations, because in that period, striped clothing was imposed on deviant individuals in order to distinguish them from other citizens. Consequently, this monograph seeks to establish some poetic and visual possibilities for the use of the stripe as a symbolic and narrative tool.