SOUNDPAINTING: THE AESTHETIC ACCESSIBILITY IN TWO WORKS BY NEWTON NAVARRO
SoundPainting, aesthetic accessibility, Newton Navarro
Audio description, a resource that transforms images into words, provides access for people with visual impairments to the most diverse image content, including works of art. Aiming to reduce inequality of opportunities in access to culture, this work seeks to bring another possibility of aesthetic accessibility for blind people, Sound Painting. Technique proposed by Josélia Neves that combines sound effects and musical accompaniment to the audio description of artistic works, in order to convey the emotional component present in them. Tevaluate the impact of this technique, Sound Painting scripts will be built for two works by the artist Newton Navarro: "Dom Quixote" and "Sancho Pança", which are part of the collection of the Nucleus of Art and Culture of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN and protection of the inheritance of non-sighted people, through a focus group. Sound Painting will feature songs composed by students of the Music Composition course at UFRN based on a survey of the aesthetics, historic and style of the paintings made in this work.