Um estudo comparativo da produção criativa de Maria Lídia Magliani e Rosana Paulino: questões raciais e artísticas em sua poética

Abstract

The present work has the main purpose of conducting a comparative study between Black women artists from Brazil, the São Paulo native Rosana Paulino and the Rio Grande do Sul native Maria Lídia Magliani (in memoriam), about the creative process of both, based on data collection of their artworks that are part of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo collection, conducting an analysis of both in direct link with ethnic-racial issues and artistic practices. This study is a qualitative research study, starting from the fact that Magliani and Paulino, until 2015, were the only Afro-descendent women artists, that had artworks the were part of the above-mentioned museum collection, highlighting shared aspects, as they belong the same territorial, racial and gender group - Black Brazilian woman -, as well as differing aspects, arising from each artist’s artistic approach. These differences will be analyzed, also addressing critiques regarding the presence of these women artists within this museum's professional field, in which only these two Black women artists were included in the museum collection until ten years ago, among so many other artists - white and non-white men, as well as white women -, using theoretical framework drawing on key authors as the methodology, such as Achille Mbembe, Cida Bento, Denise da Silva, Silvio de Almeida, Sueli Carneiro, among others. This academic text to be aligned with scientific and social contributions, aimed at contributing and disseminating information on Brazilian art produced by Black women (which should be part of heritage collections), and the end of the text, it is concluded that along with the aim of distinguishing their expressions, so as to that ruptures with Western conceptions of uniformity regarding this population can be effectively achieved.