Maquiagem e pintura corporal: uma análise semiótica

Abstract

This work treats the technique of make-up as a language, on the level of expression and the level of content and realised in texts painted on the face and/or the body of a person, historically situated in a specific time and space. It uses the theoretical base of discourse semiotics and proposes a methodology of analysis which takes in account the semiotic function of the body and the enunciation praxis of the various forms of make-up and body painting. The examples of social make-up, body painting and stage make-up are analyzed in their aspects discursive and tensive, starting from the concepts suggested by the professor of semiotics Jacques Fontanille (2004, 2007). It is observed that the make-up, like any language, creates codes socially interpretable by the customs or produces meanings unexpected from the expression that is created between the sensible and the intelligible.