Maia, Tomás, 1967-Oliveira, Luis Miguel Antunes, 1993-2017-09-272017-09-272017-03-292017-09-27http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29057The main concern of the present reflection is to explore and understand the limits of human existence and of the body itself, as well as its respective transgressions. Thus, in the first place, we intend to carry out an analysis of the limits that founded the human existence and of its moments of dissolution, in order to perceive what motivated the birth of art. Then, we will examine the issues related to the construction of human identity throughout the evolutionary process of the life cycle. The topic of this dissertation was inspired by the fact that we perceive the body as an opening, a space of unlimited expression in the creation of identity. In order to apply this way of understanding the body to different forms of artistic expression, we have selected some artists who have endeavored to convey to the observers an experience of bodily transgression. For this, we decided to decompose the body into parts, conducting an analysis that goes through the different body instances. This decomposition of the body is directly related to our artistic project, in which we investigate the most varied forms of representing it, but not in order to enclose it in a recognizable structure, rather with the aim of releasing it and this through the most varied plastic interpretationsporBeuckelaer, Joachim, 1535-1574Rembrandt, 1606-1669Soutine, 1894-1943Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992Nitsch, Hermann, 1938-Hirst, Damien, 1965-Kapoor, Anish, 1954-Schiele, Egon, 1890-1918Freud, Lucian, 1922-2011Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970Benglis, Linda, 1941-Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985Abramovic, Marina, 1946-Corpo humano - Na arteTransgressãoInformeAbjectoMovimentoLimitesmaster thesis201672170