ADORNO: TEORIA ESTÉTICA X NEUROCIÊNCIAS?

...NOSSO DIA-A-DIA CHEIO DE SÍMBOLOS CULTURAIS, DIVIDIDO POR CLASSES SOCIAIS, SEXO E INTERESSES .

"O CONCEITO CRÍTICO DE SOCIEDADE, QUE É INERENTE ÀS OBRAS DE ARTE AUTÊNTICAS SEM A SUA AJUDA, É INCOMPATÍVEL COM O QUE A SOCIEDADE TEM DE FIGURAR-SE A SI MESMA PARA CONTINUAR A SER COMO É; A CONSCIÊNCIA DOMINANTE NÃO PODE PODE LIBERTAR-SE DA SUA IDEOLOGIA SEM PREJUDICAR A AUTOCONSERVAÇÃO SOCIAL. EIS O QUE CONFERE A SUA RELEVÂNCIA SOCIAL ÀS CONTROVÉRSIAS APARENTEMENTE PARA PARA-ESTÉTICAS."

"AS OBRAS DE ARTE SÃO INCOMPARAVELMENTE MUITO MENOS REFLEXO E PROPRIEDADE DO ARTISTA DO QUE PENSA UM MÉDICO, QUE APENAS CONHECE O ARTISTA NO SEU DIVÃ. SÓ OS DILETANTES REFEREM TUDO O QUE SE ENCONTRA NA ARTE AO INCONSCIENTE."

THEODOR W. ADORNO: "TEORIA ESTÉTICA"

sobre Maxfield Parrish

About Maxfield Parrish

During the Golden Age of Illustration, Maxfield Parrish's "beautiful settings and charming figures" enchanted the American public. His work includes immense murals in office buildings and hotels, magazine covers, and advertisements as well as his book illustrations.

Many of his illustrations to children's books, still popular today, are the result of his struggle to make a living as an artist in his early years around the turn of the 20th century.

He was born Frederick Parrish in 1870 in Philadelphia, but he took the name Maxfield after his Quaker grandmother. His father, Stephen, was also an artist and Parrish's greatest influence. He originally studied architecture, an interest that is evident in his paintings. He married his wife Lydia 1895.

Daybreak, his arguably most famous picture, was created for the art print market. It is still popular to this day.

In 1900, Parrish contracted tuberculosis, and then suffered a nervous breakdown. Around that time, he switched from illustrations to oil painting. His oil paintings became very popular, with their brilliant colors and magical luminosity, until well into the 1940s. To achieve these magical effects, he would apply numerous layers of thin, transparent oil, alternating with varnish over stretched paper, a painstaking process that achieved both high luminosity and extraordinary detail.

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