REREADING OF PAINTINGS IN PANDEMIC TIMES: A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

This article aims to perform a semiotic analysis of two rereadings of renowned paintings ("Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci and "The Scream" by Edvard Munch), produced by students of the 8th grade of elementary school, of the Marist college of the city of São Paulo, having as main theme the adaptation of artistic production to the context of the world pandemic by covid-19, caused by the new coronavirus. The analysis had as theoretical and methodological contribution the triad of categories proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce: Primeirity, Secundity and Terceirity. These peirceanas categories provide us with a better analysis of the levels of interpretation and attribution of meaning through which the human mind goes through when reading the images. In view of this, to perform our analyses, we rely on the elaborations of Peirce (2005 apud Melo e Melo, 2013), Nicolau, M.; Abath; Laranjeira; Moscoso; Marinho V. Nicolau (2010), Santaella (2005), Borges Gomes; Barbosa. Lima and Pereira Gomes (2019), among other theorists. Thus, we propose, through an interpretative analysis, to enter the layers of interpretation and explore the meanings that can be attributed to the images produced by the students.