Anatomia e botânica: reflexões subjacentes em arte contemporânea

Abstract

The present study in Visual Poetics, developed in the Line of Research Art and Visuality, aims to explore the poetic potentialities of Anatomy and Botany design in contemporary art. First, by the context, an overview is made of the trajectory of naturalistic representation, its relations with Anatomy and Botany and its contributions to visual poetics. In view of the production in contemporary art is entailed to a theoretical-reflexive practice, this approach comes through an approximation of historical issues that discourse with production. During the process are analyzed works of contemporary artists that establish relations with Anatomy and Botany, some to present these elements in isolation and others to mix the two approaches. Using poietics in the search for creation of the meanings of the work in its process, through “action - reflection – action”, the results present a hybridism between human and vegetal anatomy. Through analogies of body shapes and certain plant species, this visuality of shapes, which materializes through drawing, allows us to establish reflections on popular knowledge and the use of plants for the cure of the body.