Author(s):
Canas, Anabela
Date: 2010
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/3147
Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Subject(s): Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962; Ricoeur, Paul, 1913-2005; Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844-1900; Pintura; Abismo; Fenomenologia
Description
Tese de mestrado, Pintura, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2011
The theme of this work focuses on the idea of the abyss, distinguishing two aspects: pit as a symbol of abyss / sky as a symbol of abyss. But being the abyss itself a symbolic reading deep inside the man and, recognizing in man a need of transcendence in which he sometimes represents himself as immense, possibilities of speculation are created about another symbolic result - Being as a symbol of the abyss. Hence, it emerges the apparent permutability and reciprocity of these symbols. Exploring the symbols pit and sky, which, although imbued with a similar character of immensity in depth and height, they give the appearance of an existing opposition extendable to pairs of categories such as: inside / outside, light / darkness, and others, perceived and conceptualized as opposites, but which sometimes provide similar phenomena, we sought to demonstrate, in terms of visual perception and phenomenological speculation, the relationship with the vertiginous restlessness. We sought to substantiate an idea of abyss that represents both the appetence and the fear of self-knowledge, and from this, the validity of the forms (shapes) while symbolic representations of the being – present in the contemplation of the abyss – or of the abyss as a projection or a symbol of this one, and to speculate about the paths which were defined since the structuring of the material imagination until the acquisition of shapes and the establishment of the symbols used in the evocation of the abyss. In this paper, they were developed two parallel components: the plastic realization and the written reflection. Both arose from a speculation which found argumentative tools and resources while searching some approaches to the subject or related concepts, made by referential authors, which allow to contextualize it in some of the dimensions that have been already studied, to support the idea of abyss to be developed and to extend the formal or symbolic readings, necessary for the plastic development of the theme, helping to redefine the path, or clarifying some of the initial intuitions, and in return, to guide future researches.