Os caminhos da cobra na poética da artista Bernadete Andrade

Abstract

The Amazonian artist Bernadete Andrade (1953-2007) expresses in her body of work references of her culture. In this research we seek to understand the intrinsic and extrinsic relations in the creative process of art, discussing the cultural interrelations and visual elements expressed in her work. Our objective in this study is to analyze this creation process to interpret the images of the snake found in her drawings, paintings and artistic interventions, from 1989 to 2006. By utilizing methodological and technical principals of Genetic Criticism we seek to analyze and document the creative process involved in the creation of her work by analyzing records such as sketches, drafts, texts and draft books. We are also utilizing bibliographic research as the basis for the cultural context of the artist by following a multidisciplinary methodology and established a complex network, which justifies our semiotic systems approach. Thus observing the relationships built in inter-semiotic Semiosphere of the artist herself and the involvement of uniquely Amazonian and universal concepts of cultural influence on the artistic creative process. Through this analysis we see the path of Bernadete Andrade in the development and maturation of her style and thematic choices, thus making definitive structural and conceptual links between the thematic of her works utilizing the image of the snake over the course of seventeen years of her career. Our hypothesis is therefore that the line itself and the snake were used as metaphors for the artist's concept of creation.