Ideários Estéticos Afro-Atlânticos e Decolonialidade

Abstract

Starting from the formulation of a concept for “aesthetic principles”, this article studies the proposition of the African-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) - expressed, in his own words, in the strategy of “attacking the circuit of galleries at that time”- to transpose political-territorial limits of a hegemonically white artistic field and inscribe his art through aesthetic signs that challenge the Eurocentric identity agencies that confer blackout, invisibility and primitivism to Afro-Atlantic artistic legacies.