Image and Likeness : a study on child s image in the paintings by Eliseu Viscont, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Tarsila do Amaral and Lasar Segall / A Imagem e Semelhança : um estudo sobre a imagem da crinaça nas pinturas de Eliseu Visconti, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Tarsila do Amaral e Lasar Segall

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This study analyses the image of children in the paintings of Eliseu Visconti, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Tarsila do Amaral, and Lasar Segall. It encompasses the period of approximately 1890 to 1940, whose central line of problematics is the emergence of a political, artistic, and cultural movement. That period registers a profound change, not only in the social role of children, but also of their representation in the plastic arts, in literature, in education, and in social imagery. Art insinuates a test of modulation of social affectionateness on infancy, which permits that lesser explored aspects may be treated in regard to the image of children. Children in paintings become angels, little girls entwine themselves and become part of the composition of the painting, bodies lie on sheets, little boys transfigure the turbulence of childhood. Landscapes are permeated with the enigmas of infancy. Children’s images are not portrayed with a defined infancy. What gives them strength is that they are political images, and images that are inseparable from social unconsciousness. It is through this perspective that they are records of bodies that are always talked about, and described and analyzed by adults, without manifesting through their own voices in regard to the forms that are being interpreted, expressed, and perceived. The orientation of this research advanced in the direction of avoiding a simple and arbitrary reading or description of the images, thereby rejecting the possibility of looking for any intention by the artist of presenting a pre-established idea of infancy. Even more so, it was necessary to refute the idea that an image reflects the life of the artist and his experience. The production of a painting whose theme is a child does not signify that it may infer the vision of a possible infancy at that historical social moment. Therefore, there is a need to resort to the history of art, and above all, find an adequate methodology of study for the comprehension of infancy that is made visible through art.

ASSUNTO(S)

arte image childhood educação crianças education children art imagem infancia

ACESSO AO ARTIGO

Documentos Relacionados