GUSTAVO DE AZEVEDO TORRECILHA

This research aims to investigate the relationship between Hegel's aesthetics and art criticism. To do this, it is necessary to address how Hegelian thought understands the emergence of the critical procedure of analysis of artworks, which gains strength and relevance in the reflective spiritual scenario of modernity, while discussing how Hegel himself performs an interpretation of artworks, seeking to point out his merits and even possible limitations in carrying out this procedure. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to constantly articulate Hegel's understanding of the relationship between art and philosophy, which has history as its essential element, since it is in his historical understanding of art and philosophy that the question of reflection arises, an element that Hegel points out as a constituent of the modern spirit, and which changes the human relationship with art, especially in comparison with the art of antiquity. At the same time, the research is based on the discussion of artworks carried out by Hegelian aesthetics, in order to understand how his historical-philosophical understanding of art is also reflected in his interpretation of artworks.