ILLUSTRATION AS ARTISTIC EXPRESSION: IMAGES THROUGH COMMUNICATION, REPRESENTATION AND EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION

Abstract [English]

In this research, interest in the field of illustration became relevant from a visual, expressive and emotional perspective through drawing. The central objective of this study is focused on the expressiveness of images and illustration technique, considering that the visualisation of a drawn story is described before the words are read and interpreted. ‘Illustration describes the text through images, tells a story, symbolises events, expresses emotions and awakens the attention of visual language’ Camargo (1999), [sp].
The methodology used, both at a practical and psychological level, clarifies ideologies about the visualisation of illustration as an expression of visual communication, stimulates integration in the process of personality development in childhood and artistic knowledge with an approach to multiple themes, in everything that can be reproduced pictorially, arousing attention, interest and concepts, roughly speaking, ‘illustration communicates’.
Within the scope of this theme, the names of leading illustrators in the field of illustration in various areas will be described, where statements of cultural value will be presented as a legacy to. Portuguese illustration (Illustration Competitions and. Catalogues). Given this synopsis, the present study contributes to explaining the theme of illustrative drawing throughout history, an instrument of communication with an expressive character of emotions in the daily lives of people around the world.