Arte, imaginação e criação com crianças da cidade de Benevides-PA

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reflect on children's paintings and what they can represent in their lives. Specifically, this research involved listening to children's drawings of the territory of Benevides, Pará, and trying to establish relationships with their lives by looking at the concepts of Imagination and Art in childhood. Lev Vygotsky's (2014) Cultural-Historical perspective was used as a conceptual basis, observing that the richer the human experience is culturally, the greater the material available for imagination and creation. Seen from this perspective, the child's imagination would be expressively open to countless creative experiences, considering that, when compared to adults, their repertoire would not be permeated by the marks of experiences that have already been widely experienced. And it is in this sense that the Art, Children and the City project sought this experience of listening, to give children a voice and bring them to the center of the process, in which they can participate in the construction of a territory, since they have a perception of the place in which they live and desires to be fulfilled for this place, demonstrating their sensitivity and affectivity. It is in this sense that we emphasize the importance of looking at both the experiences the child already has and those that are still open. Observing the relationships that are established between the child, art and its creation. The methodology used was participant research. The technique used was to listen to children, through drawings, in four public squares in the Benevides area, with the guiding question of how they see this city and how they would like it to be? Seventy-eight drawings were collected for analysis and construction of the results. In the same way, bibliographical research was carried out in the methodology developed, with the data presented coming from books, dissertations, theses, research published in periodicals and presentations of scientific papers. In order to analyze these drawings, discourse analysis and Vygotsky's approach to Art and Imagination were used. It is hoped that this research, together with other studies, can contribute to the academic field, as well as giving greater visibility to the importance of listening to children, their desires, ideas and dreams, through Art and Imagination.