Author(s):
Lima, Isabel Cristina Seabra Pereira, 1956-
Date: 2013
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/9012
Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Subject(s): Sarmento, Julião, 1948-; Desenho; Corpo humano; Fragmentos; Gestos; Enquadramento
Description
Tese de mestrado, Desenho, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2013
The title and theme of this dissertation is Body without a face and it is grounded on two components: theoretical and practical. Along with the drawings, there is a theoretical approach of the theme of the representation of the body without a face.In this context, and as an introduction to the theme, it is presented a study on the representation of the body in the western culture from the Classical Age until today. De-framing and body –fragment are themes, which are grounded on theoretical studies of art that will be analysed in the works of some artists who stand on the edge of this change of paradigm: from the full representation of the body to the body in fragments. Interface- body, border- body and dressed –body are sub headlines through which one tries to explore the idea of outline, border line or as an element of meaning and the draping as an object of the dark-light study and as an element of drama in the drawing. For a deeper study of the issues regarding the representation of the fragmented body, without a face and with suspended gestures, a more detailed analysis will be made on the work of the contemporary artist Julião Sarmento. On the practical component, a work will be developed on the drawing field having as the starting point a marble painted panel, Players of Cucarne, made by Alexandros from Athens and dated from century 1 b. C., in which a group of five women is portrayed. Based on pictures of women which reproduce the gestures of “players”, drawings of fragments of bodies without a face will be made, graphite on paper of approximately the size of an A1 piece of paper. Ambience, suspension and meaning of gesture/time, suspension of emotion/sensation and the work of art and its referents are topics emergent from the analysis of the work in reference and whose study will ground itself on works of visual artists, philosophers and art experts