Variações sobre o preto e o negro na pintura moderna

Author(s)

Marcela Freire Rangel

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo. , ilustrações.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-04-15

Examining board members

Marco Garaude Giannotti; Agnaldo Aricê Caldas Farias; Celso Fernando Favaretto; Sonia Salzstein Goldberg; Luiz Claudio Mubarac

• Advisor: Marco Garaude Giannotti
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts
• Indexed in: Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS; Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações - USP
• Location: Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Comunicações e Artes. Biblioteca Maria Luiza M. da Cunha; t759.05; R196v

Abstract

This essay deals with six variations of black in painting. Reaserch on the production and poetic procedures by Eduoard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Henry Matisse, Iberê Camargo, Eduardo Sued and Pierre Soulages, indicates several manners where black, contrary to its use as a shadowing component, transforms itself in areas of color. The manner in which the cromatic fields act upon the painting is analised and show that the color black, with its variations in tone and depth, may be used as an element of expession; as a means for chromatic tension over the pictures surface or for the production of a new spaciality beyond its surface. These uses are not mutually exclusive and, as where black creates chromatic tension, it may also be expressive and generate a new spaciality. (AU)