From the Schopenhauer theory on pain, and its repercussions in the conception of the Dionysian in Nietzsche, an ascendant path is created up to the transcendent, through aesthetic contemplation, passing through several categories of Beautiful. The name given to this transcendence in the present dissertation is Absolute – which reveals itself in proximity to the idea of sublime (supported in Kant’s heritage, as well as in texts from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche) but with added mystic lines. The metaphysical consolation occurs because there exists pain, being that to this Beautiful rushes as a possible redemption. The use of personal experience linked to the artistic practice is necessarily a mode of reflection, revealing itself inseparable of an awareness of the key insights to the elaboration of the theme. Atelier work while primordial expression has revealed itself as a premise of the awareness of the concepts, which led to the necessary reading for an adequate naming, in order to elaborate this thesis. Reciprocally, the writing represented an influence on the created images

Tese de mestrado, Pintura, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2012