Do you see my aura, what color is it? Seeing and hearing in Arthur Bispo do Rosario

Name: ANA DE ALMEIDA

Publication date: 06/05/2020
Advisor:

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ANGELA MARIA GRANDO BEZERRA Advisor *

Examining board:

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AISSA AFONSO GUIMARÃES Internal Examiner *
ANGELA MARIA GRANDO BEZERRA Advisor *

Summary: Arthur Bispo do Rosario's production is unique in its complexities. In view of its representation of the world, possessed by the field of art, it has unique characteristics that can be theorized by seeing and listening. Seeing in Bispo would be the visual repertoire that the man from Sergipe recalls and hybridizes, recollecting the cultural roots of his homeland with the asylum space he inhabited. Listening, in turn, would correspond to the delirium that came from his schizophrenic-paranoid diagnosis, which acted as a driving force, leading him to reproduce everything he had seen and known in life. Hereupon, this research investigates remnants of a Northeastern-Christian/Ibero-Brazilian culture that has formed the spiritual-visual basis (popular culture of Sergipe and Catholic religiosity) on which a motivation diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder led to the production of Arthur Bispo do Rosario. Therefore, the historical aspects related to the interlocutions between art and madness were considered, seeking to comprehend the trajectory of the understanding about madness in modern society when the path of rites, purification and exclusion is brought to the light of philosophical perception of what we have known pathologically as madness since the 17th century. It was also necessary to praise the biographical questions concerning Bispo's life, unraveling the personality that Bispo incites in his production, when he extrapolates the diagnosed schizophrenia and merges the visual memory of childhood with a mission delegated by voices within the mind of Bispo, to fulfill it until the day of his passing. Finally, the theoretical critical concepts conferred to his works were analyzed, being mainly written by Frederico Morais - curator of the first exhibitions of Bispo, one of those responsible for the cataloging and classification of his works -, who first presented Bispo to the field of art and theorized his works to the artistic system. KEYWORDS: Arthur Bispo do Rosario, Madness, Art, Criticism, Frederico Morais.

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