Iconografias do invisível: a arte de Feliciano e Luis Lana

Abstract

This dissertation is about Feliciano Pimentel Lana s and Luís Gomes Lana s paintings. They are indigenous artists from Desana people and were born in São João Batista s community, in Tiquié River, Amazonas. Umukomahsã, the Desana people call themselves People of the Universe . They are about a thousand people living at fifty communities in the Tiquié and Papuri Rivers. Feliciano Lana s and Luís Lana s paintings are figurative, made of tint on paper and their main subject is the Desana -Kehiriporã clan s cosmology. This research presents the desana artist s paintings and develops its analysis, based on Art and Anthropology perspectives, inspired in studies from Gaston Bachelard, Richard Wollheim, Berta Ribeiro and Reichel-Dolmatoff. Beyond presenting and analyzing paintings, this work compares the two artists paintings about the myth of the universe s origin. The comparison was prepared based on the temptative identification of archetypes structures common to both Feliciano Lana s and Luís Lana s images and work, inspired in studies from Gaston Bachelard and Gilbert Durand . This research investigates the individuality and collectivity, the imaginary and social s references, through the comparisons of the illustrated myths.