Arte e educação geográfica: possibilidades a partir de obras do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Mato Grosso do Sul (MARCO)

Abstract

This research involves a study about the language of Art in geographic education. The objective is to think the Art, in specific the painting, as a language and not as a resource or mere representation, exercising the potentialities it provides in the elaboration of spatial imaginations. In addition to the theoretical- conceptual reflections, we carried out experiments in basic and higher education, moving thought about geographic education through the signs produced by Art. From this, we point out the possibilities of other ways of thinking about languages in the process of geographic education. In the experiments carried out in this work, we used images from works by MARCO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Mato Grosso do Sul) that have an alignment with the spatiality of Mato Grosso do Sul. The possibilities presented in the experiments moved the students' thoughts and demonstrated the potential to imagine space for its main characteristic, multiplicity. When researching possibilities of thinking about Art in geographic education, we also intend, in some way, to make it possible for students and teachers of basic public education to access works in the MARCO collection. We believe it is important to disseminate the collection as a way of democratizing access to Art, taking “a piece of the museum into the classroom”.