O alcance de um grito: uma reflexão acerca da estética e cosmovisão expressionista

Abstract

This article discusses Expressionism as an aesthetic phenomenon, a vision of reality, mapping its manifestations and cultural influence through literature and other arts, as well as the finissecular period in which the expression expressionism came to be used. The work methodology consisted of reading and discussing, recording and producing reviews of the works studied and their respective critical fortunes. Because it was a work of hermeneutics, the research had a qualitative character, through a bibliographical review. Among the results, we note the expressionism expression (s) in Portuguese language and the evidence of Expressionism not only as a cultural vanguard situated in a specific historical and geographical context - which are the Nordic, Germanic and Eastern European societies, during the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century - but also as absolutely timeless aesthetic, whose roots go back to the Middle Ages and the Baroque and whose influence continues until today.