Ana Rita Cesar Lustosa
Degree in Visual Arts.
Master's student in Art at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Email:
lustosaanarita@gmail.com.
Rita
Mychelly dos Santos Salles
Degree in Fine Arts.
Master's student in Art at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Email:
ritamychelly@yahoo.com.br.
Sergio Rodrigues de Souza
Philosopher.
Psychoanalyst. Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences. Post-Doctor in Social
Psychology. Email: srgrodriguesdesouza@gmail.com.
ABSTRACT
The article presents an
idea of what art is based on the individual's cathartic expression, in which
his exploration of the self finds what it expressions reflected in the images
it produces, interpreted by those who are willing to admire it. In this sense,
the objective of this work is to understand how art came to become an essential
element for human existence, composing an elementary part of his psychic
health. To achieve this understanding, authors on art and its manifestations
over time have been used in a bibliographic research. As a result, the text in
question is presented, showing all the cathartic force that it allows to
expose. The development of the human mind and civilizing processes make life
more masked under the hallucinogenic effects of evolution and the principles of
power and sociogenic relationships. Art and its symbolic expression is not a
technique that develops only with time or practice; much more than that, it
needs to be constantly elaborated and re-designed, starting from the reading of
the reality that makes up society and the challenges posed by existence.
Artistic abstraction is a complex intellectual construction, where visual and
non-visual elements, with objective and subjective characters are present,
tying together a brilliant psychological drama that involves various moments of
the artist, where their respective worlds are represented as creatures
expressed in images, expressing the same feelings as those that inhabit the
world as we know it, with the difference that the literal condition of the
world was subjectivated by the artist's surreal perception. Finally, it is
concluded that art is a profound cathexial expression of what man feels as being
repressed by his limited existence in time and space.
Keywords: Art, Plastic Arts, Catharsis.