O POEMA DA PINTURA – RELAÇÕES INTERSEMIÓTICAS NO LIVRO POEMAS, DE PORTINARI

THE POEM OF THE PAINTING – INTERSEMIOTIC RELATIONS IN THE BOOK POEMAS, BY PORTINARI

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The work “Poemas”, the only poetry book written by Cândido de Portinari – without illustrations – is divided into 4 parts or sections: “O menino e o povoado”, “Aparições”, “A revolta”, and “Uma prece”. The painter-Portinari’s themes remind of the poet-Portinari’s ones when they refer to the joys and fears of childhood in Brodósqui. In this paper, we studied the dialogue between a single poem present in the section “O menino e o povoado” and a single painting named Circo to analyze the aesthetic relations between these two languages. The goal was to study the dialogue of Cândido Portinari’ poem with the composition process of his plastic work, by researching the aesthetic relations between these different languages, using as analysis instrument the greimasian semiotics, especially the concepts of enunciation, figurativity, figurative and plastic semiotics, and the problems concerning the poetics itself: rhythm, rhyme, and spatial arrangement of the words. Painter and drawer, Cândido Portinari was also a poet, and this was the main aspect we focused on this study.