Art importance, humanism, civilization decline, artistic creation, Julien Gracq, André Malraux, Protagoras, Roger Marx, Monet, James Joyce, Hegel, Alain, artistic retrospection
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An author's testimony on the role of art in humanizing society and countering decline, as seen through the works of artists like Monet and writers like Julien Gracq.
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The necessity of art in our society: an author's testimony to show that the world blooms through art
The decline of the world as seen by the author
The necessity of art in our society: an author's testimony to show that the world blooms through art
The decline of the world as seen by the author
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[...] This leads us to ask the following question: can memory be erased?" In other words, art allows to flourish a nature and a world that is in decline. II. The decline of the world as seen by the author These are pieces of fleurissements which allows us to build a culture and not a world, that's what makes civilization. As Hegel points out through his work, Art would be the means of reaching or realizing the truth by crossing history. [...]
[...] Thus, if the author tries to demonstrate the importance of art, and its artists: true passionate ones called by the sirens of their discipline, art cannot by itself fleurir the world, the latter being inexorably doomed to decline through the cycle of its civilizations. It is therefore through a double grid of reading that the understanding of this phrase can be allowed under the spectrum of art. [...]
[...] Thus, art influences what follows it, each artistic fragment, although it disappears, lays the foundations for a new technique, sensitivity, or way of expressing emotion. The example of Monet finds its relevance in this regard. It is his personal story and his way of approaching art that made him a master of impressionism but also, to a certain extent, a precursor to abstraction. From then on, like the study of Abhinavagupta to understand the history of Hinduism: art offers a bridge in which the rooting of a civilization can engage. [...]
[...] The world, as it is implied here, is a set of emotions and actions lived in the past. All these memories and the memory that follows them can be mobilized voluntarily or resurface without being desired. In order to show that the dream imposes itself on Man, the metaphor of the nightmare is used to qualify the history. The nightmare and the dream testify, in fact, to human impotence in the face of memories because, by definition, the control of the dream escapes us in favor of our subconscious. [...]
[...] This regular and relentless work must, however, be distinguished from artisanal works. Indeed, we also find in the artisan this dedication to a work that will provide men and women with the reasons for their genesis. The French philosopher Alain recalls in System of Fine Arts that the idea is the source of artistic work when it is not determined by an industrial will: it emerges during artistic creation." Thus, "the portrait is born under the brush". From then on, this artistic work offers a window to Humanity. [...]
