As Artes Plásticas e a crítica literária no século XIX: A “eterna” modernidade de Baudelaire

The 19th Century art, with the shift in historic time comprehension, following the evolutionist vision, began to be understood as a continuous linear sequency, strengthening the superiority of the "new" and narrowing the gap between "modern" and "old”, such as the fruition period. The acknowledgement gradually attributed to Baudelaire confirms his contemporaneousness as a poet and as an author of essays on Salons de Art of Paris, where he would anticipate the paths to be tracked by the art. This intilmate bond between literature and visual arts, yet initiated in the 15th Century, would enrich both fields\u27 artistry. The Baudelairean feeling of affirmation and refuse towards modernization began to exhibit synchrony with the aesthetic thinking tendencies ever since there was a distrust in progress, an aspect that would qualify him for the post-modernity herald role