Expressão e imaginário do grafite na cultura Hip-Hop : a vez e a voz de um grafiteiro de Pelotas.

Abstract

This work is about graffiti art in the Hip-hop culture through an investigation, which approaches narratives and aesthetic production of a graffiti artist from the outskirts of Pelotas. As a case study, it is basically directed to the observation of the Imaginary that supports this production from Gilbert Durand’s view. Such approach shows up the power of interactions with cosmic and social environments and its relation with the psychological life of each individual, which results in the encouragement of forming structures of human imaginary. Therefore, on the assumption that every artist is a mediator between the collective spirit (group and universal spirit) and artistic achievement, this work aimed to surprise the social-genesis of doing aesthetics of popular character as well as the production of sense that comes from it. It aimed to encourage such discussion about teaching practices that are related to art teaching. Therefore, in a general way, university studies about art have been deficient as for integration of artistic creations with the system of relations where they come from (which causes a bigger comparison between ways of accessing art recognition as such). Two interviews were carried out with the subject of the research aiming the observation of family and social influences over the (self) forming processes of his personal and artistic experiences. Three pieces of work were studied in order to have enough data to represent categories for analysis. From the results, three important big nuclei came out: negritude, childhood and social commitment to which it was possible to associate a perceptible relation with feminine universe, acceptance of heroism as a way of fighting and the will of overcoming a social condition of exclusion. The intersection of such nuclei permitted reflections that aimed a setting up hermeutics of meaning referring to the search of reasons that support aesthetic formulations of the graffiti artist mentioned.