Windmill: aesthetic analysis of a work of a contemporary work of art located in front of the Cultural Arts Center in Atalaia’s sea front

Authors

  • Andrezza Poconé Silva Departamento de Artes e Comunicação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe
  • Roberta Bacellar Orazem Departamento de Artes e Comunicação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Keywords:

aesthetical analyses, contemporary sculpture, Aracaju-SE, art in movement

Abstract

This work is part of a research developed for the subject of Production of Monuments, for which it wasdeveloped a study of a public monument. For this, it was chosen a contemporary work of art located infront of the Cultural Arts Center in Atalaia’s sea front, Aracaju – SE, popularly known as the windmill,made by artist Bené Santana. The main goal of this work was to make an aesthetical analysis of theartistic object in study. This must be involved with matters such as perception and visual conception, inboth synthetic and semantic languages. The project was based on the work of three authors: Dondis(1998), Wong (1999) e Arheim (1998). In the art piece, it was analysed the size, visual elements, andprimary colours. It was noticed that the piece, possess a monumental size as well as a fun theme and thatit always exists a duality in all its composition and, as a result, it possesses a perfect visual balance.

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Published

2012-12-04

How to Cite

Silva, A. P., & Orazem, R. B. (2012). Windmill: aesthetic analysis of a work of a contemporary work of art located in front of the Cultural Arts Center in Atalaia’s sea front. Scientia Plena, 3(5). Retrieved from https://www.scientiaplena.org.br/sp/article/view/1190

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 5 (2007): September/Setembro 2007

Section

Articles

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