Open-access Psychology of Art: Fundamentals and practices for a transformative action

This paper highlights art in its humanizing and potential dimensions to affect the subject. As a psychologist’s instrument, it works in favor of the constitution of more elaborate forms of being, think and act in the world. The propositions presented are based on the concepts of Vygotsky, notably those from “Psychology of Art”, in which the author defends the power of art to emerge emotions, contradictions, and reflection as means of developing consciousness about oneself and the world. This article reports part of an intervention-research carried, at a school of the state public network of elementary school II and middle whose expression of one of the students elucidates the promising character of art in promoting the imagination of adolescents.

Keywords
Art (Psychology); Imagination; Cultural-historical psychology; Psychology educational

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