Imagens poético-pictóricas da emigração em Cabo Verde

Abstract

The theme of emigration is one of the most recurrent on Cape Verde’s poetic. The writers
from the Claridade magazine devoted themselves to that theme. Understanding the poetics images
created by the claridosos as an inauguration, one can realize that the contemporary painting of Kiki
Lima resumes the theme, giving to it more positivity, including the insertion of the feminine figure
as a symbol of resistance. On scenes of exodus and homecoming, Kiki Lima gives euphoric
meanings to earth’s representative elements and no-euphoric to those associated to the ocean, in
creations which contrast, respectively, hot and cold colors. The comparative study between
literature and painting has its base on the semiotic theory by Greimas.