SUMMARY
This article aims to briefly present the aesthetic thought of Gilda de Mello e Souza, a Brazilian art critic, essayist and the first professor of aesthetics in the Philosophy course of Universidade de São Paulo in the 20th century. For this, it brings some excerpts from her works O Espírito das Roupas, that defends fashion as an art, and Pintura brasileira contemporânea: os precursores, focusing on Almeida Júnior’s paintings. Through these texts, it will also be possible to understand how her aesthetic thought is entwined with other areas of knowledge, when discussing anthropological, sociological and art history issues through the analyses of a singular object of art.Article received: April 19, 2021; Article accepted: June 23, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Franco, Juliana Siqueira. "The Aesthetics of Gilda de Mello e Souza in Writings on Fashion and Brazilian Painting." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 31-40. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.467