A arte abstrata e os artistas portuenses: fenomenologia e cromatismo

Abstract

Abstract art had a great development in the North of Portugal, where Júlio Resende and Nadir Afonso were among the artists who contributed to this artistic development in Portugal, especially for Informalism. The work of both artists uses a lot of color, making it an essential space for reading and interpreting works. Thus, it is necessary to resort to the theories of color and the phenomenology of perception to present a possibility of reading. Despite complex, extensive and difficult research that lead to the knowledge of Portuguese art, specifically in abstract Portuguese art, and theories and phenomenologies, the work was developed from the use of texts by José-Augusto França, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Raquel Playo to portray the Portuguese artistic panorama, especially that of abstraction, while the use of Goethe’s and Itten’s Color Theories, accompanied by Merleau-Ponty and Kandinsky serve to understand color and how it behaves in being. So, the color in Júlio Resende is as important as the color in Nadir Afonso, even if both use the color in different ways. Color is not without value, indeed it intensifies the reading of the works in both artists, taking the interpretation of the works, and their color, to other levels essential for understanding abstract art