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The congestion of signs and images that characterize our society Therefore, it is possible to configure the faculty of interpretative
and culture is subdued by a constant, progressive impoverishment freedom with the creative participation of the viewer, who is
of the messages’ inner meanings, which the artists wish to profuse capable of establishing a sort of creative dialogue of the artwork
in their works. Today, messages only exist as mnemonic stipulations, he is viewing: sometimes this dialogue is determined by the viewer
weakly reactive: they are mere graphic or decorative signs. himself, at other tunes it is determined by the inner intensity of
the artwork itself.
Nevertheless, if the artists’ desire is to reach an almost absolute
ethical beauty, they will have to conceive a highly “opener” art, Consequently, it appears that only “simplicity” is the value to be
and also maintain a boundless faith in the public’s fruition. In fact, pursued; but how can this simplicity be possible, if nowadays
even if the artwork is autonomous and definite, it will still give rise art is surrounded by scenery of an extremely complex and
to the inevitable, personal interpretation that renders it existent differentiated reality, where eclecticism of the contemporary
to one of its possible aspects. thought is dominant?
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