Pintura: entidades espirituais da macumba brasileira

Abstract

The research presented here is about a set of situations that unites Visual Art and Macumba, focusing on painting, which is the practical work provided by this paper. It consists of a brief personal analysis about where I place myself in the theme, and then walks towards a concept of macumba, which, like art, I believe to be something mutable. There is a comparative between macumba and Afro-Brazilian religions, as well as their importance to brazilian culture and to this work. In face of this set, I emphasize here the importance of this culture for history and for both modern and contemporary Brazilian art. Approaching some of my own works, I had the possibility to think about the path of this project, tracing an analysis between the religious context of African matrix in Brazil with five visual artists, who represent a lot for the country, for art in general, and also for Afro-Brazilian history. The results were a creation that inserted the research in a plastic environment, in which I recreate eleven spiritual entities, present in the macumba cults, using digital painting as a mean to achieve my goal, and this is the most important part of the work, because the whole context created before revolves around these paintings and the research for them. Based on that, the work seeks to break through the prejudices that involve such rituals an cultures, placing macumba as a main part of Brazilian culture and highlighting the spiritual entities mentioned throughout the research.