Extemporaneous considerations: Joan Miró, João Cabral and Murilo Mendes

Abstract

This essay proposes to evidence the relations between modern art theories and the considerations that the three artists wrote about questions of the present. Reflected after primitive art practices, this relation will be addressed either in Catalan painter Joan Miró as in João Cabral de Melo Neto and Murilo Mendes poetries. Concepts that not necessarily are considered as “moderns” in art are valorized and assumed as producers of an artistic pratice that includes, in that which modernity designed as aesthetics objects, the aestheticizing forms of prosaic life.