ART AND LIVING EXPERIENCE ON THE "PLANETA FOME": A DIALOGUE AMONG CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS, ELZA SOARES AND MARIA AUXILIADORA DA SILVA
Literature, Music, and Painting. Escrevivência. Spatiality in literature and the other arts. Poetic and aesthetic signs. Analysis of interpretations of songs, literary work, and paintings.
The present thesis proposes a dialogue between literature, painting, and music, through the work of Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), Elza Soares (1930-2022), and Maria Auxiliadora da Silva (1938-1974). This dialogue begins with the following perspective: the notion of escrevivência by Conceição Evaristo, and its amplification from literature to the other arts. The study of spatiality in the arts from two points of view: the social and historical “place” where Carolina, Auxiliadora and Elza are born, grow up, and become artists; and the places they approach in their works through common themes. As well as the approximation between the three artistic modalities, by borrowing the terminology and the significances from one field to the other. It was from these three support points that we analyzed some questions that the work of these artists, contemporaneous with each other, evoke. From the social point of view, the reality of marginality and poverty as a legacy from slavery, the ascension through the artist practice, the critical view of machismo and racism. All of that, from their own experiences and the listening of other people's experiences, in stories that (con)fuse and form what Evaristo calls the black feminine strands of artistic performance. Finally, through critics based in traditional and preconceived classifications, we perform a brief study on the reception of the art work by these three artists, as a way of deepening the understanding of their contribution in the cultural and artistic fields. In this sense, this research intends to contribute to the studies among the arts, with the finding of an artistic line that forms itself through black feminine protagonism, which questions its social reality by expressing subjectivity.