Sabino, Isabel, 1955-Gouveia, Ana Elisabete de2019-05-022019-05-022019-01-142019-05-02http://hdl.handle.net/10451/38018This doctoral thesis in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting, presents a study on penumbra, developed in two fronts: one theoretical and another being practical. The practical one, which addresses the elaboration of a body of inedit pictorial works, motivated the first one, which is focused on an analysis of the concept of penumbra. Assuming that penumbra is subliminally present throughout our artistic journey, and considering that its discrete presence is synonymous with its inaccurate location, between light and shadow, we seek in this work to think about the concept departing from different looks that includes contents from Physics, (Optics), Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology (Perception), History and History of Art in particular, and Painting Theory, which were carefully chosen for this research. So, this research has been developed in three modules: the first one deals with the concept of penumbra, concerning the above mentioned contents; the second one, exposes a narrative about the presence of penumbra in the poetics of five painters: Clara Peeters, James McNeil Whistler, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Jorge Martins and Anne Françoise Couloumy. These artists were chosen by us, according to our identification to their approaches, either in the sense of the contents of theirs works or the treatment they gave to the pictorial matter, and, even, according to their ideas facing art and life; the third chapter discusses the works done at different moments in our artistic path. For this analysis we focused on our three series of paintings, Paisagens (2003), Ausência Substantiva (2006) and Clarescuro (2009), in which we identified contents and procedures that hold diferent dialogues with the refuse of light. Afterwords, on the second part of this last chapter, we elaborate on our own creative process. After the presentation of our paintings, which are part of this research work, this thesis closes with an approach to the contents that we didn´t realise were there while painting themporPinturaPenumbraInstabilidadeMistériodoctoral thesis101594810