Milton Nascimento e suas capas: apreciação e encanto

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the album covers of the singer and composer Milton Nascimento, within a historical framework that took place during the period of Institutional Act No. 05. The work begins with a brief historical contextualization of the impacts that the dictatorship civil-military movement brought to Brazilian society, especially to the artistic milieu, where artists, especially those who were outraged by all political obscurantism, would have their art and their speech oppressed by the hands of censorship, often needing to resort to different types of tricks, so that their works and their message reached the public. After an outline of some of the problems that Milton Nascimento faced with the government, we move on to contextualization of how the graphic creation process for the disc packaging took place, highlighting the agents responsible for these processes, making it possible, therefore, we draw a link between the visual arts and music, in addition to trying to arouse the public's curiosity for album covers, which often end up being in the background, as mere packaging for a phonographic product.