A QUESTÃO DO NÚMERO SETE NA OBRA: “AS SETE PORTAS DA BAHIA” DE CARYBÉ

Abstract

Carybé's work flourished on Bahia soil with a cultural potential that enabled the artist to identify with the city, its people and its gestures. In his art, he reveals the magic and charms of Bahia. The book The Seven Doors of Bahia offers a sample of the perspective and creative potential of the artist in question, who writes a part of the history of Brazil and Bahia, in particular. In this work, a theoretical-methodological model of qualitative nature is adopted that has particular characteristics. We aim to identify which cultural contexts are related to number seven in Cary'be's work; to analyze the work The Seven Doors of Bahia, as regards the founding of the city of Salvador, the representation and magic that involves the number seven, in order to arrive at an understanding of its creative dynamics. It is important to investigate how Carybé's imaginative process allows him to apprehend with his freedom of creation to represent a reflection on the number seven and a whole process of elaboration that involves the key to the opening of his images treated in the drawings that win life through representation, culture. With this vast possibility of communication, this is the role that semiotics plays as a methodology for a better understanding of the world and of reality.