Travessias (Aug 2008)
A SEMIOTIC APPROACH ABOUT THE PAINTING OF MANOEL DA COSTA ATAÍDE
Abstract
In this work, we intend to show the efficacity of the semiotical theory applied to the reading of non-verbal texts (painting, sculpture, drawing). Our discussion is based on the French semiotics theory builded by Julien Algirdas Greimas (1917-1992). According to the semiotics, there are verbal texts and non-verbal texts, and any kind of text is composed by two plans: the content plan and the expression plan. In the content plan, we have structures of meaning organized in a generative course of meaning, while in the expression plan includes, in the painting, the color, the space, the light and the form. The generative course of meaning is a model of building sense that can be use to understanding a non-verbal text, like the painting, for example. About this points, we work with a canvas by Manoel da Costa Atade (1762-1830), a brazilian artist, from the state of Minas Gerais, that painted episodes of Christ`s life.
