WORKS OF ARTS: BRAZILIAN SOCIETY, RACISM AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Abstract

In Brazilian society, although with significant changes in how the black individual and his body is idealized, men bestialized and extremely strong or exotic, but not endowed with advanced intellect. Black women reduced to two extremes, bad hair and ugly or exotic. Criticizing the racist art of the XIX - XX, and for that it is essential to study the Brazilian Works of Arts, because it is necessary to problematize how the racist ideology in the country was built. In the contemporary Brazilian conjuncture, how the aesthetics of art was formed and how it is today is a cross-cutting theme because it shows us how racism is structural. The use of such emblematic images as the painting by Pedro Américo “O scream do Ipiranga”, Modesto Brocos “A Redenção de Cam” and Cândido Portinari “Café” is of extreme pedagogical value. In contemporary times, it is necessary to teach and discuss how our Nation was created and how we participate in its path. The study, analysis and criticism of these paintings “O cry do Ipiranga”, “A Redenção de Cam” and “Café” contributes to understanding how structural racism was idealized and we see the traces still in contemporaneity, in our landscape in our speeches and how we treat the body of the black individual, and how the Brazilian state and its economic and public security policies have been inspired by these paintings from the 19th – 20th centuries.