The meaning of 'Artistic Creation' in K. Fiedler's art theory

KIMURA Masanori

doi:10.20631/bigaku.26.4_31

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K・フィードラーにおける芸術創造の意味
K フィードラーニオケルゲイジュツソウゾウノイミ

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His thesis "Uber den Ursprung der kunstlerischen Tatigkeit" (1887) represents the fundamental point of his thought. He considers that the art is an activity of sensible cognition, the essence of which is to grasp intuitively the meaning of the world and also to master it. The art is not unnecessary but indispensable for man, when he wants to be a spiritual being. The art as such also aims at grasping the clear concept of a thing, which must be not only seen, but also expressed by the artist. In painting, for instance, a painter makes efforts to see clearly the thing and to constitute firmly a form of its visual concept. The artist is distinguished from the rest, not because he can see clearly or accurately, but because he can express or represent. Thus his vision grows intense and becomes pure through expressing, and at the same time a visual aspect of the object comes to appear out of the object itself and a form of visual concept is clearly shaped in his consciousness. This activity, however, does not simply mean that the artist represents a visual form of a thing, but that he does create the very work of art which is a kind of realization of the world. There we may be able to find a true meaning of 'Artistic Creation'.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics 26 (4), 31-40, 1976

The Japanese Society for Aesthetics