ART AS A CATHARTIC EXPRESSION OF THE SELF UNDERSTOOD AS AN EXISTENTIAL OBJECT

ABSTRACT The article presents an idea of what art is based on the individual's cathartic expression, in which his exploration of the self finds what it expressions reflected in the images it produces, interpreted by those who are willing to admire it. In this sense, the objective of this work is to understand how art came to become an essential element for human existence, composing an elementary part of his psychic health. To achieve this understanding, authors on art and its manifestations over time have been used in a bibliographic research. As a result, the text in question is presented, showing all the cathartic force that it allows to expose. The development of the human mind and civilizing processes make life more masked under the hallucinogenic effects of evolution and the principles of power and sociogenic relationships. Art and its symbolic expression is not a technique that develops only with time or practice; much more than that, it needs to be constantly elaborated and re-designed, starting from the reading of the reality that makes up society and the challenges posed by existence. Artistic abstraction is a complex intellectual construction, where visual and non-visual elements, with objective and subjective characters are present, tying together a brilliant psychological drama that involves various moments of the artist, where their respective worlds are represented as creatures expressed in images, expressing the same feelings as those that inhabit the world as we know it, with the difference that the literal condition of the world was subjectivated by the artist's surreal perception. Finally, it is concluded that art is a profound cathexial expression of what man feels as being repressed by his limited existence in time and space