Mario Pedrosa

a revolução da sensibilidade

Abstract

To dissociate Mário Pedrosa's political activity from his engagement with art would be to miss the principles that guided his life, as if the artistic innovations of the post-war period did not allow the association of these two fields. Pedrosa never abandoned his project of reducing “the enormous distance that goes from things resolved on the mental plane to the moral plane of action. The aim of this essay is not to retrace Mário Pedrosa's political career, but to understand his intellectual engagement in art and politics. His thoughts and actions in the service of the revolution and in the name of an ideal evolved throughout his life and became an integral part of his personality. Sensitivity thus became the necessary condition for changing the world.