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MARTA dIMITRESCU

Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and London, Uk

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Art gives rise to and establishes new forms of behavior especially if it is a result of historical - artistic process in whose context we will be able to
considered from the point of view of propaganda, of the distribution, of the understand its full meaning. In this way the history of art itself becomes a
process of communication and of the means of expression. Therefore it way of researching and of viewing the world. Among these considerations
is unthinkable to study a work of art by trying to ascertain “what is being of a general nature the more strictly aesthetical question can not be left in
said, who says it, to whom and what the effects are.” In fact art is a form the background: how we can identify the nature of the beautiful and the
of Man’s activity which is intended as a confirmation or exaltation of his nature of art? In fact since Plato and Aristotle the problem of nature-art
creative skill and of his capacity relation has taken on specific
of expression, therefore he and fundamental valences.
modifies himself and the The concept of imitation
natural environment according and the purifying-or rather
to a dramatic, ironical etc. educational-role of art that
connection which goes with was constitutional to ancient
the individual or social needs greek philosophy changed
of a logical or moral nature. into medieval and Renaissance
Through the qualities of a work speculation. The Middle Ages
of art, criticism should find emphasized the nature of
essential the definition and the subordination of beauty
realization of the nature and to truth and justified art as
originality of an artist, with an allegory; the Renaissance
a constant reference to the gave more autonomy to
general concepts of imitation, natural beauty but it always
simulation and the singular considered art as imitation, and
artifices of the technical and the principle of verisimilitude
stylistic particularities. Then as it s it ’s fun dam e nt al
the investigation and study rule. vico and kant laid the
of the aesthetical qualities of fundamentals of modem
a work of art will allow us to aesthetics. vico claimed
understand exhaustively the that the autonomy of art is a
processes of transformation form of pre-logical, intuitive
and transfiguration of reality knowledge, the creative
or of a certain ideas developed faculty of which is imagination;
by an artist. The elaboration but the importance of vico’s
of philosophical concepts aesthetics is linked to two
and of Man’s thought follows fundamental themes: the
the course of the whole relationship of art with myth
history of art, from ancient and the identification between
times to the present day: art and language as rules.
therefore it is necessary to They were the first to analyze
search for the links among critically these themes,
the various classical branches nowadays extremely topical
of knowledge in order to in the artistic phenomenology
interpret artistic movements and in the specify of literary
and the works which characterize them critically and correctly considering poetics, with special attention to the synergism that exists among art,
them in their connection and in their development in time. Undoubtly it is a myth and symbol. These themes include the concept of art as creation,
required condition to seek the reasons why a work of art becomes a subject as expression and as communication, which are to be developed by the
of knowledge, a phenomenon, or an idea because any artistic creation can idealistic and neo-idealistic aesthetics of Benedetto Croce. (Excerpt)
not be considered separately, but should be thought of as a moment and Andrea Pagnes, curator, writer
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