COMPARED AESTHETICS FLASHES: READING CAPE-VERDEAN IMAGES

• Main Author: Simone Caputo Gomes
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2010-11-01
• Series: Abril
• Subjects: Estética Comparada, literatura, pintura
• Online Access: http://www.revistaabril.uff.br/index.php/revistaabril/article/view/203

<p>The essay presents, according to the theoretical line of Comparative Aesthetics, a gallery of Cape Verdean's paintings and texts to be read throughout  the relationship between literature and painting, in order to demonstrate how the male and female points of view perceive the images of women and their daily lives. Writers Fátima Bettencourt, Manuel Lopes, Maria Margarida Mascarenhas, Oswaldo Osório, Vasco Martins, Vera Duarte will dialogue among themselves and with the painters of Armando do Rosário, Kiki Lima, Misá, Sandro Brito, Tchalê Figueira and Tony Barbosa, from diverse visions of social situation of the social context of women in Cape Verde, under the inspiration or challenge to the canonical Botticelli Venus.</p>