Emotions and feelings: controversy on teaching art

Abstract

 The article discusses the idea of art as the 'expression of feelings and emotions,' beginning from the contestation of the idea that it is still common, nearly a stereotype, among professors of att, The terms of this idea (art - expression - feelings - emotion) are the focus of a reflection that points to a few risks in the notion of art as expression and, most especially, of art as the expression of feelings and emotions. Without denying the expressiveness of in/an art, or the possibility that emotions and feelings may be 'expressed' in art, the article calls one's attention to the partiality, mutability, contextuality and historicity of the idea in question. These points are suggested as important to review lhe idea of 'art as the expression of feelings and ermotions,' making its function relative and redimensioning its role in teaching art.