INDEPENDENCE OR DEATH!: A BRIEF STUDY ON THE TRANSFORMATION CAPACITY OF IMAGES

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the creation of a visual narrative elaborated by Pedro Américo in the work Independência ou Morte! (1888), analyzing the presence of a version of this image in the graphic novel Independência ou Mortos (2012). This study encompasses the conception of painting in the 19th century up to its wide reproduction as the main visual representation of the Independence of Brazil in the 20th century, becoming a kind of model for the illustration of the fact. Thus, it is expected to demonstrate how it is possible that a painting found space in a 21st-century comic book, even with the two images belonging to different genres of artistic creation which are distant from each other.