Sobre anjos e suas asas na arte

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This work proposes to investigate aspects about the potentialities revealed by the winged figure, especially in the angels affinity with thematic as allegory, modernity and contemporanity. To analyze its resurging infinite significations and how angels image survives and lives with time to contemporanity, in contemporary art. In the first chapter, entitled constancy and variation, it is presented the constant winged figures in history, in art history up to the usage of this image as Christian iconography, when allegorys study through decency made decorative construction to happen in a persuasive form, reaching colonial Portuguese-Brazilian art, through Christian Patronage. Religious construction, connected to economical factors, joined by decency, appears repetition and difference, unique in the angels appearance. In the second chapter, entitled presence and absence, we punctuate the angels presence in the relation with the spectator and the world in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, from the passage of the divine to the humane. We stand out angels image as modernitys allegory, Walter Benjamins adopted and studied figure, as characteristic elapsed from the transitions of the time. The angel, forgotten by human delusion, appears as a reflex of this symptom of modernity, the ephemeral and melancholy feeling. From the lost of divine condition, the angels fallen, the being endowed of humanity. In the third chapter, as persistence and reelaboration, it is approached the angels appearance in contemporary art as the field of probabilities and possibilities. Towards tensions of the apparent world, the angel in art appears as the mirror of humanity in contemporanity. This way, it survives by the opposite side, as a formless being and by damages. It consists in the reelaboration of the image as forms survival and thus exists as a weight of its own condition, unbearable and unsustainable lightness. Thereby, this study was done through bibliographical research, on theoretical obliquity and art historic, with a more philosophical and speculative value related to the images, being and operation by collage and connections, with a possibility of new interrogations and interlocutions

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imagem allegory anjo arte contemporânea alegoria imagem artes arte moderna séc. xxi anjos na arte contemporary art image angel alegorias

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