Different Conformations of Shyness

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.66117

Keywords:

Modernism, Visual arts, Rodrigo Naves, Shyness.

Abstract

This work discusses the opinions of the art critic Rodrigo Naves about the canon of the plastic arts spread by the modernism of 1922 and its developments. The work tries to contextualize the author’s restrictions about artists who became famous with these movements, Anita Malfatti and Tarsila do Amaral for example, as well as about the criteria used by modernist intellectuals in reflections on Brazilian painters. The method used is the analysis of different texts by the critic in order to underline the theoretical, historical and aesthetic assumptions that underlie his position. Moreover, the article seeks to understand the lineage of the visual arts composed by Rodrigo Naves in A forma difícil, in which names of the modernist canon do not appear.

Author Biography

Luiz Philip Fávero Gasparete, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

É Doutorando em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade pela Pontifícia Universidade Ca- tólica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Mestre em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Especialista em Teoria Psicanalítica: Clínica e Cultura pelo Centro Univer- sitário Academia (UniAcademia) e Licenciado em Letras Português – Literaturas pela Universi- dade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Published

2022-11-08

How to Cite

Gasparete, L. P. F. (2022). Different Conformations of Shyness. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 29(57), 471–483. https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.66117