Pintando a nudez: um estudo de caso das obras de arte censuradas no Brasil do séc. XXI

Abstract

The production of art can only be attributed to the autonomous creativity of the artist, but it can also reveal the direct social influence in this process. The art-society relationship proposes an art endowed with ideology, with revolutionary potential and that goes hand in hand with politics. The return to the past demonstrates that the political context has always been directly linked to artistic production, leading in dictatorial contexts of restriction to freedom of artistic expression. The look at contemporary events where censorship took place in artistic nudity demonstrates that the context of political instability tends to generate a conservative environment. In this sense, art plays with praise its role of resistance and social representation from the most remote, but historical evolution seems to present a cyclical pattern in which the reactionary conservatism again and again puts the artist in the forefront of struggle. The propagation of conservative ideas in the country leads to revive moments of ideological intolerance and restriction of fundamental rights. This also entails an alienating wave tending to reprove everything that confronts the dominant ideals. The confrontation with the artistic nude is done precisely in the face of this repressive movement.