O pretagonismo nas Artes Visuais: representação afro-brasileira

Abstract

The present work brings together paintings, photographs and other genres of artistic representations of black people in the history of art in Brazil in different moments and contexts, analyzing the ways in which these people were portrayed in order, from this analysis, to perceive and propose positive representations and promoters of black protagonism - here indicated under the term "pretagonism" , which is a term indicative of an ascension and explicit black protagonism, in a way that already indicates its central agent and its black attribute, without omission or invisibilization of its black representatives - promoting the debate on the social and racial stereotypes active in Brazilian society and on the changes that occurred in this context throughout the 20th century until the present day. The work aims, especially, to encourage artistic work by black people, seeking to promote artists who are often invisible and discovered by the Brazilian artistic milieu.