O corpo adolescente feminino na obra de Jeanne Milde: sensualidade, erotismo, inocência e pureza

Abstract

This article deals with the naked female adolescent body in the work of Jeanne Louise Milde, a belgian sculptor. She graduated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and came to Brazil as a member of the European Pedagogical Mission of the State of Minas Gerais. In the city, she acted as a teacher and an artist. She arrived in Brazil with a civilizational european view, towards a land "where there was everything to be done". We present the idea of expanded temporalities, dealing with artists whose formation took place in the academic standards of the nineteenth century and who continued to produce their works throughout the twentieth century. The main work analyzed is the sculpture “As Adolescentes” - The teenagers girls, from 1937, in dialogue with other works of hes own and with the conservatism, the moralism of Minas Gerais, dialoging with the modernity that existed in the state of Minas Gerais.