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attitude, theory of aesthetics, aesthetics of the existence, you find here? Aesthetics is a part of philosophy that is
aesthetics of perception, of appreciation, aesthetic regime, about beauty.
aesthetic experience, aesthetics of the times of the triumph The lady, her hair very short, answered again:
of aesthetics. Do you follow me? - Aesthetics must be accepted in its many appreciations,

She continued asking to the man seating next to her and, definitions and interpretations.
with pompous pride, her cheeks swelled of knowing so And the man, shaking his head, answered:
much on aesthetics. I was already completely lost, but I - But if aesthetics is a part of the philosophy that has to be
must confess that for a moment I believed that the lady logical, what logical sense can all this have? Logic is part of
understood a lot. the philosophy that studies the laws of reasoning among
The consciousness of the individual, in conjunction with the others, and there is absolutely nothing logical here.
artistic environment, forces us to reflect on the knowledge - Think that today’s art, what we call contemporary art, is

that art experts manifest without any clairvoyance and based on values and concepts that cannot be contemplated
often confusion. under the same parameters that are used to value art from
The knowledge of the so-called contemporary art is other centuries.
shaped by many reflections, studies and readings. The The lady answered.
artist himself, unsure of the path to follow, often becomes - Art, today, is not a philosophy, it is not a science, nor is
a pasture of doubt until, finally, he manages to achieve it a religion.
conceptual stability in the artistic way he has decided to - It’s nothing.
pursue. From that moment on the artist himself conforms Mr. interrupted.
as an absolute truth the style, line or concept of the artistic - Shut up and let me talk.

principles he has decided to follow. The good woman replied.
After making profound reflections, this gentleman, - Contemporary art.
bourgeois tie, said: She continued.
- Art is in decline today! - It is an activity of the human being that did not exist before.
These two, let’s call them spectators, were talking and - The world is not static and, on the contrary, it is constantly
talking and I, stunned, listened to them. evolving and revolutionizing, and the artist cannot stay
- You see the simple destruction of a violin. away from this world. That is why the creator must be a

Continued saying the man. revolutionary.
There was one smashed on a wooden board, under glass The gentleman, who was on the other side of the lady in
and with a frame. reference to me, spoke loudly and so I could understand
- It is presented as a work of art! him without having to make any auditory effort. Of course,
A few meters from where we were seating, submerged in I didn’t look at them, pretended to be absent, or they could
a kind of resin, detritus that the artist had gone searching stop their conversation.
for in a damp. - What you and few others like you call contemporary art
- Don’t think art is in decline. is a fuck up. I’ll tell you.
She resumed. It was the gentleman who spoke now.
-The mere destruction of an object or the accumulation of The lady who was not very pretty, but had put blue around

debris inside a box can never be considered a work of art. her eyes, answered.
The lord answered. And he continued: - What you say is not art, it requires effort from the creator.
- You told me about aesthetics. What kind of aesthetic do The simple idea of breaking and destroying everything is