Decolonialidade : a representação do negro na arte de Kehinde Wiley, Harmonia Rosales e Rosana Paulino

Abstract

The objective of this work is to understand the absence/presence of the representation of the black race in the history of Western art, based on decolonial studies. To this end, the historical and epistemological process of colonization and the relationship between coloniality and modernity are addressed, focusing on the concepts of coloniality of power, knowledge and being. The main reference of this work is the studies of the Modernity/Coloniality Group (M/C), which contributed to the development of decolonial thought. The methodology used was the bibliographic research, which was complemented by the imagery reading from Edmund Feldman method, which takes place in four stages: the description, formal analysis, interpretation and judgment of the work. It proposes a reading of images of works by Kehinde Wiley, Harmonia Rosales and Rosana Paulino, black artists from North America, Central America and South America, respectively. It is concluded that these works reveal the misrepresentation of the history and identity of blacks produceds during colonization, while altogether ingalting the black race, which allows us to rethink the colonial paradigm in the teaching of visual arts (sic).