Imagina, com amor, o futuro

Abstract

This research is the investigation of the representations of love in artistic images, how they correlate with the definition and structuring of love in Western culture, as well as their unfolding in artistic practice (both personal and collective), understanding the strong role that images have in archiving and propagation of ideas of abstract worlds. Through paintings from past centuries to some current examples, love is ideally presented in the romantic form based on Greek philosophy, giving path for dysfunctions, racism and other violence. Therefore, through the works of Bell Hooks, we atempt to perceive love as a political action in order to improve quality of life, a possibility through community living and higher integrated with nature. In this way, we will find the meaning of love in other existing artistic images and we will produce new images, a personal practical exercise developed through digital collages.