"The thesis itself, involves some psychological and philosophical aspects and thoughts about fear as the main mover in the so called negative aesthetic. This specific method of self-expression, its possible triggers and the reasons that may initiate art creation on the basis of pessimistic and ugly imagery have not been discussed to a great degree in the past. Generally, the content of this writing is focused on the fictious correspondence between two engravers and printmakers. These invented letters serve as an exposé for practical findings and thoughts about the author's works executed during the period 2005-2006." / Master of Arts

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-02-28Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:27:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_srm_me_ia.pdf: 3367855 bytes, checksum: d8b28ad336f25c88adc37255b01c951a (MD5) / A presente dissertação aborda o conceito de Grotesco na Estética e na História da Arte, analisados sob dois aspectos principais: da forma como esse conceito foi transformado desde a época da Grécia Antiga até o século XIX (período de grandes mudanças formais da representação humana nas Artes) e do exemplo do artista Francisco de Goya, através de sua série de gravuras Los Desastres de la Guerra, composta por imagens violentas; grotescas, híbridas e trágicas, que refletem esteticamente o horror advindo da Guerra de Independência e do retorno de um Estado Monárquico e Absoluto. Nossa pesquisa tem por meta avaliar as mudanças políticas, sociais e culturais que influenciaram a transformação desses conceitos estéticos e a aceitação desses novos paradigmas que resultaram numa mudança de visão e fruição da própria Arte entre os séculos XVII e XIX (época de ascensão do Liberalismo e Iluminismo), mostrando como os acontecimentos históricos podem transformar os conceitos artísticos de acordo com as necessidades humanas de retratar seu próprio tempo. Os procedimentos metodológicos foram de revisão bibliográfica parcial sobre as questões do Grotesco na Arte e uma pesquisa sobre a vida e obra de Goya, utilizando as imagens acima citadas, que aqui são analisadas do ponto de vista iconológico / The current dissertation accosts the concept of “Grotesque” in Aesthetics and history of Arts analysed under two main aspects: the way this concept was transformed since the times of Ancient Greece until the nineteenth century ( a period of great formal changes of the human representation and other pictorial genres, and the example of the artist Francisco de Goya through his series of etchings The Disasters of War, composed by violent, hybrid and tragic images, which reflect aestheticly the horrors resulted from the War of Independence and the return of a Monarchic and Absolutist State. Our research objectives have the aim of appraising political, social and cultural factors that influenced the processing and acceptance of new paradigms such as the Grotesque in art making, that resulted in a change of vision and enjoyment of the Art itself between the seventeenth the nineteenth centuries (time of the rise of Liberalism and Iluminism), showing how this concept was transformed by artistic, cultural and historical events according to the Human needs of portraying their own time. The methodological procedures were of a partial bibliographical review about the issues of the Grotesque in art and a research of the life and work of Goya, using the prints cited before, which are here analysed from an iconological point of view

In the uncanny feeling I experienced from Goya’s Deaf Man’s Villa, an estranged Deaf Man’s Villa was created but also repressed in my subconscious and thus invisible. How can I use AI to derive this Deaf Man’s Villa hidden in my subconscious? The aim of this project is, with AI Midjourney, to deduce the uncanny feeling I experienced from Goya’s Deaf Man’s Villa to an architectural design.  This project provides a way to identify design intent and develop architectural design through research, AI Midjourney, traditional design methods such as drawing and modeling, and other methods such as novel writing. In the project's methodological path, the authors identify that AI has the potential to aid architectural design but cannot replace the human designer's driving role in purposeful architectural design. Ultimately, the authors discuss the role of AI-produced images in architectural design with the semiotic model of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Studien undersöker användningen av Goyas etsning När förnuftet sover kommer monstren och Fuselis oljemålning Nattmaran som förekommer i slasherfilmen Terror på Elm Street (2010). Konstverken är placerade i en scen där konstverken bland annat får en självrefererande roll eftersom det som sker i konstverken även sker i filmen. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad konstverken fyller för funktion i filmen och att undersöka om det finns stilistiska och tematiska likheter mellan konstverken och filmen trots att det skiljer ungefär 200 år mellan dem. De båda konstverken analyseras semiotiskt och filmen analyseras främst utifrån studiens teoretiska perspektiv: intermedialitet, transmediering och intertextualitet.   Resultatet visar att slasherfilmer och skräckfilmer är väldigt flitiga med användandet av intertextuella referenser och självrefererande uttryck men att det är svårt att veta exakt vad konstverken har för betydelse. Tidigare forskning visar att tidig skräckfilm inspirerades av gotiska romaner och romantiska konstverk vilka transmedierades till filmmediet när det var tekniskt möjligt. Mellan konstverken och filmen går det att hitta flera stilmässiga och tematiska likheter som är typiska för det som började framhävas under romantiken. Terror på Elm Street (2010) bär på flera postmoderna drag, bland annat eftersom filmen kombinerar uttryck från det förflutna och berör gränsen för vad som ses som fin- respektive populärkultur. / This study examines Goya’s etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters and Fuseli’s The Nightmare and how they are used in the slasher movie A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). The purpose of this study is to explore the artworks and their role within the movie and examine if it is possible to distinguish stylistic and thematic similarities between the works despite being separated by approximately 200 years. The artworks are analyzed according to a semiotic method, while the movie is analyzed mainly using the study’s theoretical aspects: intermediality, transmediality and intertextuality. The result shows that intertextual references and self-referential expressions are frequently used in slasher movies. However, the specific role which these artworks play in the movie is often hard to decipher. There are several similarities between the artworks and the movie and previous studies shows that early horror movies were influenced by gothic novels and romantic paintings which were transmediated to fit the film medium. The art works used in A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) have the same motifs as part of the film’s story and are also part of a postmodern trend of mixing between so called high culture and popular culture.

Ce mémoire vise à élargir, à l'aune d'une approche herméneutique jaussienne, l’interprétation de deux tableaux de Goya portant des titres qui leur ont été donnés a posteriori : "Cannibales montrant des restes humains" (1800-1808?) et "Cannibales préparant leurs victimes" (1800-1808?). Notre analyse se fonde en premier lieu sur une description de la matérialité des œuvres ; nous fournissons la première lecture de la relation entre ces tableaux et en défendons par ailleurs le statut de diptyque. Nous proposons ensuite une analyse critique de la réception des deux tableaux. Puis, dans la mesure où ces œuvres sont les premiers exemples où apparaissent en peinture des « sauvages » cannibales, nous explorons l'horizon iconographique du cannibalisme afin d'y chercher des images comparables. Cette tradition figurative paraît se réduire à trois catégories, à savoir: l’image coloniale, la caricature et la peinture mythologique. Ensuite, en partant de l'hypothèse répandue et héritée du romantisme que ces œuvres constituent des représentations de la nature humaine, nous tentons de les réinscrire dans l'horizon historique et philosophique dont est issue cette notion. Nous nous penchons tout spécifiquement sur les pensées philosophiques de Thomas Hobbes et de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, qui articulent des conceptions contraires de la nature humaine : si pour l’un, celle-ci est cruelle, pour l’autre elle est fondamentalement bonne. Ainsi, pourrons-nous mieux situer ces deux tableaux par rapport à cette notion à l’aune de son contexte d’émergence spécifique, notion que Goya a certainement découvert à travers les Ilustrados qui incarnent la philosophie des Lumières en Espagne. Nous désirons démontrer de quelle manière ces œuvres pensent et comment, par l'entremise de leurs propres moyens, elles en viennent à se distancier, en les dépassant, les horizons iconographique et philosophique dont elles participent. / The present research project aims to broaden the interpretations of two paintings of Francisco de Goya, whose titles were attributed to them a posteriori: "Cannibals Gazing at their Victims" (1800-1008?) and "Cannibals Preparing their Victims" (1800-1008?). The analysis begins with a description of the materiality of the paintings. This section represents the first reading of the works’ structural connections, and suggests that the two images are in fact two parts of a diptych. We will then delve into a critical exploration of their reception. Since these images are the two first examples of cannibal figures inspired by colonial imagery to appear in the Western art historical tradition of painting, we explore the iconographical horizon of cannibalism in order to find comparable images, the likes of which are divided into three categories: colonial images, caricature, and mythological paintings. Afterwards, considering the widespread and romantic interpretation of these paintings as representations of human nature, we will attempt to reinscribe them within the historical and philosophical spheres from which this notion derives. We focus on the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose conceptions of human nature are contradictory towards each other. While Hobbes suggests that the nature of humanity is cruel, Rousseau deems it fundamentally good. This notion is one that Goya probably encountered himself while frequenting the Ilustrados – or, the more prominent figures of the Spanish Enlightenment. As a result, we will be able to situate the two paintings with respect to their specific context of emergence. Through the examination of these horizons, we aim to demonstrate the ways in which these two paintings think, and how, through their own resources, they deviate from – or even surpass – the iconographical and philosophical situations from which they hail, and to which they respond.

O trabalho propõe-se a analisar os romances Nada (1945), de Carmen Laforet e Tiempo de Silencio (1962), de Luis Martín-Santos para examinar o traço singular da construção de ambas obras, qual seja, a apropriação das séries de gravuras Los Caprichos e Los Desastres de la Guerra de Goya. Em Nada, abordamos a integração do aspecto monstruoso ao espaço romanesco, o apagamento da fronteira entre o mundo onírico e o real, a representação fragmentária e a diluição dos limites entre o passado da matéria narrada e o tempo da narração. Em Tiempo de Silencio, analisamos os procedimentos de redução do espaço, o uso do extracampo, da animalização e de imagens expansivas, caracterizados pela apropriação de imagens, procedimentos e temas provenientes do universo goyesco. A partir da análise desses elementos, observamos que, ao incorporarem as gravuras na composição desses dois romances, os autores criam uma dimensão ampliada do horror da guerra e, ao mesmo tempo, sugerem uma interpretação da história contemporânea como um movimento de continuidade do \"desastre espanhol\", desde o século XIX até o pós-guerra civil espanhola. / The proposed study aims at analyzing the novels Nothing (1945), written by Carmen Laforet, and Time of Silence (1962), by Luis Martín-Santos, in order to examine both works construction singularity; that is to say, the appropriation of the engravings series of Goya\'s The Caprices and The disasters of the war. In Nada, we deal with the integration from the monstrous aspect to the novelistic space, the suppression of the frontier between the oneiric and the real worlds, the fragmented representation and the dilution of the limits between the subject matter narrated and the time of narration. In Time of Silence, we analyze the procedures of space reduction, the use of field work, of animalization and expansive images characterized by the representation appropriation, procedures and themes provided by the Goyan universe. Taking the analysis of these elements into consideration, we observe that the authors, through the pictures incorporation within the composition of these two novels, create an amplified dimension of the horror of war, and at the same time, they suggest an interpretation of contemporary history as a continuity movement of the \"Spanish disaster\" since 19th Century up to the Spanish civil post-war.

O trabalho propõe-se a analisar os romances Nada (1945), de Carmen Laforet e Tiempo de Silencio (1962), de Luis Martín-Santos para examinar o traço singular da construção de ambas obras, qual seja, a apropriação das séries de gravuras Los Caprichos e Los Desastres de la Guerra de Goya. Em Nada, abordamos a integração do aspecto monstruoso ao espaço romanesco, o apagamento da fronteira entre o mundo onírico e o real, a representação fragmentária e a diluição dos limites entre o passado da matéria narrada e o tempo da narração. Em Tiempo de Silencio, analisamos os procedimentos de redução do espaço, o uso do extracampo, da animalização e de imagens expansivas, caracterizados pela apropriação de imagens, procedimentos e temas provenientes do universo goyesco. A partir da análise desses elementos, observamos que, ao incorporarem as gravuras na composição desses dois romances, os autores criam uma dimensão ampliada do horror da guerra e, ao mesmo tempo, sugerem uma interpretação da história contemporânea como um movimento de continuidade do \"desastre espanhol\", desde o século XIX até o pós-guerra civil espanhola. / The proposed study aims at analyzing the novels Nothing (1945), written by Carmen Laforet, and Time of Silence (1962), by Luis Martín-Santos, in order to examine both works construction singularity; that is to say, the appropriation of the engravings series of Goya\'s The Caprices and The disasters of the war. In Nada, we deal with the integration from the monstrous aspect to the novelistic space, the suppression of the frontier between the oneiric and the real worlds, the fragmented representation and the dilution of the limits between the subject matter narrated and the time of narration. In Time of Silence, we analyze the procedures of space reduction, the use of field work, of animalization and expansive images characterized by the representation appropriation, procedures and themes provided by the Goyan universe. Taking the analysis of these elements into consideration, we observe that the authors, through the pictures incorporation within the composition of these two novels, create an amplified dimension of the horror of war, and at the same time, they suggest an interpretation of contemporary history as a continuity movement of the \"Spanish disaster\" since 19th Century up to the Spanish civil post-war.

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2007