FROM BEAUTY TO “UGLY BEAUTY”

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https://doi.org/10.33871/23580437.2022.9.2.160-172

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This study presents a process of creating a self-portrait based on the selfie, developed in a graduate program in visual arts at the doctoral level. The objective is to discuss the transfiguration of the face through a subversion of facial beautification with clay mask and effects of selfie editing applications. The research is based on the concept of 'beautification', by Danto (2015), and the methodological approach follows the three dimensions proposed by Rey (2002), resulting in self-portraits that show a transfigured, misshapen face, as a result of the operating mode used. This allowed us to conclude that the creation of a subversion of conventional beautification reveals an “ugly beauty” that says more about the transfiguration of the face as a conceptual content and contributes to thinking about the volatile beauty of the countless selfies posted, daily, on social networks as a creative power in realization of the self-portrait inserted in the context of contemporary art and in dialogue with current technologies.

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Rogério Tubias Schraiber, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM). Graduado em Artes Visuais - Licenciatura e Bacharelado/Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (UNIJUÍ); Mestre em Artes Visuais; doutorando no Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes Visuais da UFSM - linha de pesquisa Arte e Tecnologia; foi professor substituto no Departamento de Artes Visuais da UFSM; participante do Grupo de Pesquisa Arte e Design CNPq-UFSM. Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.

Reinilda de Fátima Berguenmayer Minuzzi, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).

Graduada em Artes Visuais/Desenho e Plástica - Bacharelado/UFSM); Graduada em Design/Comunicação Visual - Bacharelado/UFSM; Mestre e Doutora em Engenharia de Produção/Gestão do Design pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; professora associada do Departamento de Artes Visuais da UFSM; Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa Arte e Design CNPq-UFSM.

Dezembro de 2022

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2022-12-13

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): Art&Sensorium

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Artigos em Poéticas

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