The art’s individual conception: a reading of A confissão de Lúcio and O retrato de Dorian Gray

The present article analyses two literary works, The confession of Lúcio of Mário de Sá Carneiro and The Picture of Dorian Gray of Oscar Wilde, in which authors elaborate, in its workmanships, reflection spaces on the art and allow the personages to create different artistic workmanships for possessing the flash alive, capable to materialize itself in The confession of Lúcio with Marta, or of the picture of Dorian Gray it withhold its aging, considering a way in the art to be defined by the personages, against the happened modifications of the establishment of the modern society. Modernity is also considered as basis for the artistic movements that appear bringing a new perspective for art. Therefore, it takes in consideration the modifications in the conception of the man caused by progress