Diálogos Transdisciplinares em Girl with a Pearl Earring: a Arte ...

“Film has nothing to do with Literature.”
Ingmar Bergman
“El cine es literature, si no es literature, no es nada.”
José Martínez Ruiz
1.2. A Literatura e o Cinema
1.2.1. O cinema na Tradição das Relações entre a Literatura e as Artes
Visuais
O problema crítico das influências cinema-literatura pode situar-se em um
contexto mais amplo: a antiga preocupação pelas relações da literatura com as
artes visuais (Klein: 1981, 02-03). A história da arte e da literatura ocidental tem
sido testemunha de numerosos contatos entre poesia e pintura, talvez porque,
como se tem dito, constituem “terrenos mais prôximos entre si” (Praz: 1974, 212-
213), para Mario Praz:
Well may Lessing utter a warning, […], about the limits separating poetry and
painting, stating that the field of painting is space and that of poetry is time, so
that there could be no confusion between the two of them; well may he declare
false the parallel which Winckelmann had drawn between Sophocles’Philoctetes
and the Laocoön as expressions of pain in art. The temptation to explore the
correspondence between the various arts, […], has sprung up again every now
and then in the fantasy of artists (Praz: Ibidem, 24).
de modo que quando se buscam linhas “pré-cinematográficos” (grifo meu) na
visualidade das obras do passado haveria que se perguntar se esta não se deve,
melhor, ao intento por parte da literatura de “conseguir os efeitos da pintura”, de
“converter-se em pintura verbal” (Welleck and Warren: 2003, 150); na opinião de
Praz:
Two stock phrases, one of Horace, the other of Simonides of Ceos, enjoyed an
undisputed authority for centuries: then expression ut picture poesis, from Ars
poetica, […]; and a comment, attributed by Plutarch to Simonides of Ceos, to the
effect that painting is mute poetry and poetry a speaking picture. […] A glance at
an old tradition dating back as far as Homer’s description of Achilles’ shield will
easily convince us that poetry and painting have constantly proceeded hand in
hand, in a sisterly emulation of aims and means of expression (Ibidem, 04-05).