Imagens de um corpo de mulher: (re)criações na obra de arte de Clarice Lispector e Frida Kahlo

Abstract

Images of a woman s body: Clarice Lispector and Frida Kahlo s art re-criation is a literary and philosophic research that aims to find a woman s body through the analysis of part of Clarice Lispector s literature and Frida Kahlo s plastic arts, also experimented by the researcher during this academic writing.Using the read-across approach, this thesis proposes to present the connection between plasticity and textuality, both the word and the image. Taking as a point of intersection the body, there is a writer who paints and a painter who writes: in this exchange it s possible to see a meeting point from where corporalities whose constancy is to be transforming emerge. There is a thin line between life and art in the creative processes of the two researched artists. The representation concept, not often used, is discussed, which makes possible the use of the word re-creation.In Clarice Lispector s book called Água Viva , a writer-characterwrites about the limits and scopes of her own writing act.It is common to find in Frida Kahlo s paints a corporeal figure with surgical procedures scars due to her ailing condition that lasted her whole career. Each one in their own way and from their own living body produced re-creations that involve, in their artwork, the reader and spectator, including the researcher.According to what has been discussed we highlight the connections between literature and painting, as well as between art and philosophy. This relation not only points, but also creates poetic and conceptual bodies. These connectionsrefer to a series of transformations, studied here - a woman's body to come