Vidal, Carlos, 1964-Gomes, Catarina Vaz Joaquim Simões 1986-2015-06-022015-06-022015-02-262015-06-02http://hdl.handle.net/10451/18225This dissertation aims to understand the relationship between the work of art and the beholder. The very existence of this relationship is the reason why there is a possibility of creating simulacra. Theatricality is a characteristic of an artistic object, which isn’t necessarily spectacular. Simulacra exist because of this theatrical nature of the work of art, which depends on a space and time experience. There are several degrees of spectator interaction in this experience: absorption and game; empathetic imagination and commotion; desire and transgression. The space/time between the individual and the work of art is diluted, generating substitution processes that incite the spectator’s identification with the object. The artistic creation becomes a theatrum mundi in which making a distinction of reality becomes something diffuseporTeatralidadePinturaIlusãoSimulaçãoAbsorçãoHistória da artemaster thesis201349639