Afrobrazylijczycy a sztuka Brazylii okresu kolonialnego

Abstract

The article focuses on several issues related to the presence of African Brazilian community in the Colonial culture and Brazilian artistic life. The first one is related to functioning of the African topics that appeared in the works of such artists as Albert Eckhout (1610–1665) and Jean Baptista Deberet (1768–1848) and Leandro Joaquim (1738–1798). The second problem is the presence of black people among the artists, as well as their position in the Brazilian artistic community: Valentim da Fonseca e Silva (c. 1745–1813) and Antonio Francisco Lisboa or Aleijadinho (1730/1738–1814). The last issue is constant presence of elements from African cults in the folk Catholicism, which also translated into existence of certain objects (artefacts) which we can locate in the cultural area between Brazil, Africa and Europe (“ex votos”, “oratorios”, “pencas de balangandas”).