Belmiro de Almeida and realism: from the gloss to the enchantment of proximity

Abstract

In this essay one reflects, through a version by Belmiro de Almeida of a painting by Henri Gervex, on the issue of Realism not as mimesis, but as the moment of rupture with the representative regime (Rancière), and of the “copy” as gloss, that is, as a cannibal version of an European “original.”