Artworks bear within themselves the entire history of their epoch: the mythological and historical currents that shape it, the psychological undercurrents that trouble it, and the metaphysical depths toward which it aspires. Time reaches into eternity and Through the perfection of art, the whole system of a culture’s thought becomes intelligible, its fears, its longings, its ideals, and its hidden metaphysics.
Die Weltanschauungskunst is the manifestation of an individual ideal and the profound relation between the creator and his art.
Die Weltanschauungskunst is the manifestation of an individual ideal and the profound relation between the creator and his art.
Aeternitas
Artworks bear within themselves the entire history of their epoch: the mythological and historical currents that shape it, the psychological undercurrents that trouble it, and the metaphysical depths toward which it aspires. Time reaches into eternity and…
"There is no point in speaking of the current desire to hold on to a “traditional art.” Today no one has any idea of what can rightly be called traditional in a higher sense. We find here only academicism and the withered reproduction of models, which lack—and must needs lack—any original creative force. It is a variety of the “regime of residues”; the so-called great art relegated to the past is merely the stuff of rhetoric.
In the opposite, avant-garde trend, value and meaning are reduced to those of a revolt and an illustration of the general process of dissolution. Its works are often interesting, not from an artistic point of view but rather as indices of the climate of modern life. They reflect the critical situation already alluded to in speaking of European nihilism, but give rise to nothing constructive, permanent, or durable. We should note amidst the chaos of styles the cases of rapid retreat from the most advanced positions: almost all those avant-gardists who were most revolutionary in an existential situation that was originally authentic have accepted a new academicism, a new conventionality, and the commercialization of their work."
In the opposite, avant-garde trend, value and meaning are reduced to those of a revolt and an illustration of the general process of dissolution. Its works are often interesting, not from an artistic point of view but rather as indices of the climate of modern life. They reflect the critical situation already alluded to in speaking of European nihilism, but give rise to nothing constructive, permanent, or durable. We should note amidst the chaos of styles the cases of rapid retreat from the most advanced positions: almost all those avant-gardists who were most revolutionary in an existential situation that was originally authentic have accepted a new academicism, a new conventionality, and the commercialization of their work."
No one is prepared to grasp that, both in nature and in art, the sole and supreme process is to create form and structure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (30 October 1808)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (30 October 1808)
“Through art, Man transcends the confines of his own ego and secures oneness with the universe. Clearly, it is established: the role of art as means of self-transcendence.”
”Only as an æsthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
”Only as an æsthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aeternitas
No one is prepared to grasp that, both in nature and in art, the sole and supreme process is to create form and structure. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (30 October 1808)
"Anyone to whom nature begins to unveil its open mystery feels an irresistible yearning for nature’s noblest interpreter, for art."