(IM)POSSIBLE DIALOGUES BETWEEN FRIDA KAHLO AND HILDA HILST: THE BODY AS A POETICS OF THE IMAGE OF THE SELF
Comparative Studies. Poetry. Painting. Eroticism.
This thesis report takes as its theme the metamorphosis of the body in the works of Frida Kahlo and Hilda Hilst in which the exercise of comparative studies between the languages of visual art and poetic art is demonstrated, analyzing the interrelationships between eroticism, imaginary, painting and poetry. The use of the body as a metaphor is also highlighted, proposed by both artists, as a way of expressing their feelings, anxieties and conflicts experienced, making these works take on an impactful label for readers. It aims to investigate eroticism, as an aesthetic-literary resource, in its ideological, symbolic and cultural aspects, in a proposal of intertextualization of poetry with visual art, highlighting pain, suffering, desire, death and the sacred. As this is a work of a theoretical nature, its development privileges bibliographic research with a review of selected authors among literary critics involved in the theme, through an aesthetic survey (formal) - in view of the comparative analysis between the formal resources of painting, appropriated by the literature – and philosophical and substantial of the object of study, for the discussion of the authors addressed. For that, we take to dialogue about the above categories, Adorno (2003), Bataille (2004), Candido (1976/2006), Carvalhal (1994/2010), Durand (1979/1999), Nitrini (2010), Paz (2012) ), Ponty (2004) Santiago (2000), Figueiredo (2022) among others.