Música, pinturas e palavras: o processo criativo interartístico e intersemiótico na obra de Dorival Caymmi

Abstract

This work is the result of a research on the interartistic creation process of the singer, poet and painter Dorival Caymmi (1914-2008). It investigates the interactions of the artistic languages used by Caymmi to compose her musical and visual works. The research is based on the hypothesis that interarts are imbrications between artistic languages, and which at first could be seen as unconscious, but which proved to be objective when placed in the light of investigative methods of intersemiotic translation and by the compositional and analytical method of ekphrasis. musical. The desired objectives pointed to fields of interaction, integration, combinations and transformations of a visual work into a musical work. For these analyses, we chose the Caymmian work as an object precisely because he is an artist with multiple talents. An art worker with a poetic, musical and pictorial sensibility. His creative process, dimensioned by the modes common to the languages of music and painting, were the object of observations in this research. Value modes, duration modes, rhythmic modes, intensity modes, plane modes, timbre modes, colors and sounds, interpretation modes, among others. These modes, from the point of view of the investigative method of intersemiotic translation, are common to the languages of music and visual arts. Subsequently, we combine and confront these modes in order to compose an analysis of Caymmi's creative process. These imbrications were also analyzed by the method of musical ekphrasis suggested by Singlind Bruhn. In the end, the Caymmiana work demonstrated possible interartistic combinations and transformations. Translated and intermedia works by one of the most important Brazilian artists.