A imagem da mulher negra nas xilogravuras da artista sergipana Jacira Moura

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Rebouças, Vilma Maria Santos
• Orientador(a): Severo, Marjorie Garrido
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Culturas Populares
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cultura popular; Mulheres na cultura popular; Xilogravura; Mulheres negras na arte; Imagens da mulher negra; Jacira Moura; Semiótica visual; Images of the black woman; Woodcuts; Visual semiotics; Popular culture
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: OUTROS
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/17518

This research aims to analyze the plastic characteristics and meanings that we can read in the images of black women in the woodcuts of the Sergipe artist Jacira Moura. We present a study based on a sample of three woodcuts from the artist's collection. We approach a concise study of the images of black women in the visual arts, the state of the art on the imagery of the black woman and the images of black women in Brazilian woodcuts and their plastic characteristics. We seek in the woodcut’s signs of “black popular culture” that identify sensitive experiences of black women. We understand that the works studied here reflect the customs of each period, where the black woman was relegated to the background, fulfilling stereotyped roles of enslaved and domestic worker or having her body sexualized. The turning point was around the 1980s, when some black women began to have more space in the artistic world to do a self-representation, describing themselves from their own point of view. The methodology for analyzing the images is based on the semiotics proposed by Algirdas Greimas (1984), the theory of meaning and on the approach of visual semiotics, Pietroforte (2020). The study on the poetics and the theme of Jacira Moura's woodcuts is also carried out in order to analyze the woodcuts entitled Majestade, Esperança and O rest. In the Majestade woodcut, based on the analysis of the semiotic square and the eidetic, topological, and chromatic plastic categories, we identify meaning and semi-symbolic relationships between a black queen woman versus a popular black woman. In Esperança we identify meaning and semi-symbolic relationships between slavery versus freedom. In the woodcut Rest we perceive semi-sibolic relationships between rest versus work. We consider that the three woodcuts analyzed emphasize ethnicity, culture and work in the images of black women and that the artist Jacira Moura approaches the image of these women in her woodcuts with dignity, seeking to emphasize our ancestral culture.