Poéticas da visualidade em João Cabral de Melo Neto e Joan Miró: a poesia como crítica de arte

Abstract

This thesis focuses on some major poems João Cabral de Melo Neto developed as poetic criticism. The theme of this research is the construction of a critical-discursive lyric, an artistic production that evaluates art with the terms, the very instruments of art. This analytical perspective is triggered by the early Romantics (Schlegel and Novalis) and expands itself torwards two directions: the poem written from a reflection on art or nature (critical in its genesis), as far as the criticism, transmuted into poetry. The comparative approach of the poet s stanzas with pictorial works referenced therein demonstrates the poet's constant dialogue with the visuality poetics and the aesthetic conceptions of modernity, particularly with Joan Miró s poetics. Through comparative approach, two paths full of experimental aesthetics materialize: the route of the poetic to the plastic in João Cabral, and the opposite way, the work of the Catalan painter from the plastic to the poetic. For both artists, the artistic languages exploration processes cause as extreme consequence, the plastic and poetic dissolving, toward the ineffable in painting and poetry. For Miró, plastic signs are poetic because they keep into themselves a universe of possible meanings that transcend the order of the thing itself. And the scope of the changes that his poetic reaches endeavor the poetry analogously: poetic signs show up fully poetic by transcending the form and the meaning within the plasticity of the word. If the word may become matter (moving from abstraction to concreteness), the matter painted can be poetry. Integrate the theoretical of this research the main philosophers who discuss the critical nature of poetry, from the romanticism of the first philosophers (Schlegel and Novalis), even those whose thinking is related to modernity or postmodernity (Benjamin, Adorno, Lyotard, Blumenberg and Agamben).