Contemporary art criticism: aesthetic references and art languages (Crítica da arte contemporânea: referências estéticas e linguagens da arte)

This article presents the main aesthetic notions regarding the critical analysis of the traditional European cultures and, recently, of the American. Therefore, the sense of the American culture, in which the languages of arts are based, is analyzed on the effect of occidental philosophy. Consequently, this emphasizes both art and contemporary aesthetics theories to better understand the work of art aim nowadays with discernment on theoretical, prescriptive, or ideological thinking in visual arts.