Entre muros e imagens: aprendizagem nas artes visuais pelo grafite

Abstract

The research aims to discuss urban art, especially graffiti, as an artistic and cultural manifestation historically linked to the peripheries, since it emerged in this context in the 1960s in the United States. Its challenging character resonated in the city of São Paulo, from the 1970s onwards, consolidating itself as a powerful form of expression that transforms walls into urban voices. Currently, graffiti is used in different parts of the world as a means of denouncing injustices, resisting oppression, and making social, political, and cultural causes visible. The study presents the historical context of the emergence of graffiti and the sociocultural panorama in which it developed, addressing its insertion in the city of São Luís, highlighting the Pikenas das Cores collective and female production in the visual arts, in a field still predominantly marked by male representation. By linking graffiti to the discussion about female representation in the visual arts, this study proposes the application of a didactic sequence that uses elements of graffiti, such as letters, colors, symbols, phrases, and tags, as a pedagogical practice, with the aim of stimulating students' critical reflection on female protagonism in urban art. The research adopts a qualitative methodological approach, of an exploratory-descriptive nature, based on a literature review on visual culture and female representation in the visual arts, analysis of legal documents from Basic Education, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and written, photographic, and audiovisual records of the activities developed throughout the didactic sequence.