Imagem de sertão nos traços de Elomar Figueira Mello e Cândido Portinari: uma experiência comparada

Abstract

The research aims to think about the formation of “Sertão” images in the reading experience from the DVD recording of the staging of Auto da Catingueira, by Elomar Figueira Mello, occured in 2011, at the Palace of Arts in Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil; and reproductions of paintings from the series Os Retirantes, painted by Cândido Portinari in 1944. Within this cut, theoretical reflections are sewn, especially linked to the notion of image and to the relations between the different languages of theater, music, literature and painting, moving such reflections to the context of each author and his construction, to the context of a reader. At the same time, there is a search for a new meaning about the individual perception and the critic of the authors and their constructions, giving them a certain view from an ever provisional and dynamic reading perspective. The Auto pieces, written and performed like an opera, go flowing in each Portinari's paintings, considering the relations between the artistic labor of the languages compositions and the perception by a reader, making each reading experience a transdisciplinary search for forms, memories and contexts that, with imaginative activity, will form momentary moving images of “Sertão” to each reading experience. Such discussion takes place within the scope of the theory of literature and comparative literature, especially with regard to the role of the reader and the interart and interlingual relations, as well as the historical and political potency of imaginative activity.