Simplicity and singularity: ‘virgin’ art according to Mário Pedrosa’s conception
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0383.2008v29n1p75Keywords:
Mário Pedrosa, ‘Virgin’ art, Creation, Art/insanity.Abstract
In the beginning of the 20th Century, asylums patients’ artistic expressions started to be valued and studied. In the 1940’s, Mário Pedrosa, an important Brazilian art reviewer, analyzed a group of patients’ work from Centro Psiquiátrico Pedro II and defended its aesthetic value. This work, thus, aims to analyze Mário Pedrosa’s point of view towards the patients’ work as well as the theories and concepts that helped to construct his idea of ‘virgin’ art, considering the favorable historical context to the validation of such work.
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