The common impression
about the baroque is that it is an irregular, obsolete, exaggerated, and
necessarily royal, affiliated with the
inquisition,
aligned with slavery and colonialism. And here I would like to reflect a bit. Somewhere in the late Renaissance, in the occidental
world, begins the
democratization of
art,
and the Baroque,
paradoxically, made a
contribution to this. Resulting from the
reactional intention to reaffirm the power of the
church and the monarchy, Baroque
concepts seek to
communicate with popular taste, using gold, illusion, sculpture
and decoration. Hence
it brought to a
maximum scale and impact
all forms of
art, from
architecture to
music, in
order to convence with the magnificence of the celestial kingdom but ended up confirming the beauty and
pleasure of
earthly existence, finishing at once and for all with the remnants of Gothic
asceticism. Aiming
to convey to an illiterate population, the Baroque spread knowledge
and enlightenment;
inspired by the science and discovery of the
world,
the baroque foretold modernity.
This
is an excerpt from
the text of
the catalog by:
Madina Zingashina, curator of the project ART-MAP Braga 2017
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