Unpacking Heidegger's Philosophy of Artistic Creation
Introduction
Art refers to the application or the expression of human creative skills as well as imagination, mostly in a visual form such as sculpture, text, painting or any other creativity that can be seen or tangible, creating works to be primarily appreciated for their beauty, emotional power or significance. On that context, the origin of the work of art is an essay text by Martin Heidegger, a German philosopher. Heidegger made the text between 1935 and 1937, reworking it for an excellent publication in 1950 and later in 1960. In his work, Heidegger base argument on the various lecturers he had earlier delivered in Frankfurt and Zurich during the 1930s, foremost on the artwork essence and second, on the issue of a proper meaning of “thing,” marking the very first lectures of philosophers on the art notion. On the other hand, in advance of the art of the broken arm, is a sculpture of 1915 by the artist known as Marcel Duchamp that is comprised of a normal snow shovel with a painting of “from the Marcel Duchamp” on the handle. This sculpture had a lot of meaning that when well analyzed, it is well developed. Therefore, this paper is set to explore Marcel Duchamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm and Martin Heidegger“.
Staring 1913, Duchamp challenged the recognized standard of arts by choosing mass-produced, functional objects from each day experience and considering them as part of his artwork. He mostly referred to his sculpture 'readymade' since making them just the other artists design their sculpture. The sculpture aimed at undermining the traditional skills notations, beauty and uniqueness, boldly stating that an artist could establish by making choices. In addition, Duchamp bought his first art in a hardware collection store in 1915, dated the shovel and placed it on display from his studio ceiling, playfully, the title In Advance of the Broken Arm alludes to the objects planned purpose. Origin of the Work of Art” art of work and how the art conveys its meaning. In his work, Marcel Duchamp uses a shovel sculpture, a piece of art that many people may find it challenging to understands its meaning and implication. However, it is unbelievable that the sculpture has a direct meaning; in short, the sculpture is self-explanatory. Thus, the sculpture implied that one should use the shovel while removing the snow or rather, one might fall while removing the snow without the shovel and break the arm. However, many people seemed not to believe if this was the actual message that the sculpture communicated since it appeared to direct, but in a real sense, this was the meaning that the artist had intended to convey. Nonetheless, I cannot judge whether the artist made this sculpture from the previous experience, or he just made it educate the community.
Correspondingly, in 1936, Martin Heidegger delivered a lecture that was later was translated. The lecture is known to many people as “The of the Work of Art.” Those scholars who have perused the text say that it is thought-provoking. In other words, it explores concepts philosophically. Nevertheless, it is advised that one should read a line by line or carefully. In this way, the text is philosophically rewarding. Reading the text, word by word, carefully enables an individual to extract much meaning as possible. Heidegger uses poetic language in the article to explain a few things. The text generally investigates the origin of art in human history. The term der ursprung from German is used to me 'springing forth.' The aforementioned questions author the origin of art. Apart from this, Heidegger wants to know what comes out of the artwork. Such concerns can be related to his idea of truth. Here, Heidegger claims that art is unique. It is unique in its capacity and reveals nothing but the truth. Besides, this scholar says that may it be a song, painting or a poem; artwork is a thing. He perceives “thingly” character in art. However, to explore this challenging concept, Heidegger uses three traditional notions. He takes us to Greeks where a thing is linked to specific qualities. For instance, a thing as a substance is attached to such attributes as red, woolen, three-legged, among others. Then the scholar argues that a thing can denote unity. For example, a reading assignment. Lastly, he views a thing as a matter. According to him, a thing has an imposed form. Heidegger then concludes that all these perceptions bear their origin in day-to-day interaction with tools. To Heidegger, such terms as earth and world have special meanings. According to this scholar, works of art make a world for human beings or Dasein.
The essay by Heidegger covers several things that would take the whole day or even weeks to analyze them. However, it is good to note that Heidegger challenges people for failing to consider creation as an essential aspect of the artwork. He says that when scholars are expounding between truth and artworks, they often do not consider the fact that they are created. Besides, the essay convinces people that art is not only incredibly original, but also certainly eye-opening. Heidegger, in his article, further shows that we can think of art as being strife, earth, world, truth and even being. For example, he uses Greek temples to portray conception ascertained to earth and world. With this, Heidegger shows art going transition. In this case, from artwork to an art object. The author also depicts that there is interdependence between the world and earth as far as art is concerned. Here, the earth refers to natural materials that artists use to paint a picture of the world for us. Lastly, Heidegger claims that truth is achieved through a process of error and struggle. In other words, the artwork is a product of struggle. All these ideas developed by scholar tell us more about art. For example, we can see that it originates from a thing and goes on to express the world. However, the process of art and trying to bring out the meaning or the truth is one of the struggle kinds. Therefore, though the author uses a complicated jargon, his essay tells us more concerning art.
Conclusion
In brief, the artwork is a comprehensive term that is used to describe human creativity either in relation to certain aspects or different events in life. Further, despite different people thinking that artwork is all about entertainment and kind of economic activity of earning, many forget that all the artwork has a meaning. Some artworks have different meaning depending on the person interpreting it and the surrounding cultural environment, but this is not a big issue that can affect the artwork. On the other side, artists should always consider the best way they could communicate a particular art so as to avoid people having different meaning on the same artwork.
Bibliography
- Marcel Duchamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm (1915) and Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art”
