Aristotle, In its ethics to Nicómaco, states that passions are “in general, everything that is accompanied by pleasure or pain ", but it does not offer us any other definition and simply provides us with a list: appetite, ira, fear, valor, envy, happiness, amor, hatred, desire, jealousy and compassion. From this list, each of us would take some and take away others, and this is what various thinkers and philosophers have done.. Cicero distinguishes four: desire, placer, fear and distress. Saint Thomas talks about love, hatred, desire, sadness, flight, gozo, esperanza, despair, fear, audacity and anger. Descartes collects the first four from the previous one and adds admiration and joy, and Spinoza makes them all arise from three primordial: desire, joy and sadness. Throughout history, passions have been confused and intertwined with emotions., For Kant, all of them are diseases of the soul., something that is suffered. This is how the Royal Academy defines passion: “action of suffering” or, in another meaning, “disturbance or disordered affect of the mood”, that brings it closer to the definition of emotion: “intense and temporary mood disturbance, pleasant or painful. Discover how those passions and emotions, so difficult to classify and define, have been represented in art is the purpose of this series of conferences.
From the hand of five specialists, will address how, fundamental questions of our existence such as love, death, The joy, humor or desire have been represented in painting and sculpture, but also in other disciplines such as architecture and music. Beyond religious and mythological iconography and artistic theories and ideologies, The reflection of all those passions and drives that we suffer fill art with true life..
Thursday 25 of September “Art and the movements of the soul”. ConAlberto Pancorbo La Blanca, art historian.
Thursday 2 October “You will be a few days from this world gone by”. Images of life and death in medieval art. Con Marta Poza, Professor of Art History at the Complutense University.
Thursday 16 October “Desire in 17th century painting, between fascination and censorship”. Con David Garcia Cueto, head of the Department of Italian and French Painting until 1800 from the Prado Museum.
Thursday 23 October “Ubi love, this oculus. The look of love in artistic creation”. Con Noelia García Pérez, Professor of Art History at the University of Murcia.
Thursday 30 October “Anger and violence in the baroque images of war”. Con Diana Carrió-Invernizzi, Professor of Art History at the National University of Distance Education.
SCHEDULES: Thursday 25 September and 2, 16, 23, 30 October, at 18.30 h.
