Review article
Mimesis and Abstract Art. On the Issue of the Art's Relation to Reality
Katarina Rukavina
; Dane Godine 10, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
The concept of mimesis is a Greek concept according to which the imitation of reality is the main principle in art creation. From the beginning of the philosophical thought art’s specific relation to reality has thus been indicated and emphasized. Regardless of the different understandings of that relation, which can also be traced since the ancient times and is based on the antagonism of the work of art smaller than nature (which is being imitated until deception) and the work of art bigger than nature (which is being recovered and repaired), it is always a presentation or description of visible reality in the work itself. With regard to the necessity of the relation between art and reality, we shall tray to examine how the concept of mimesis functions in modern visual art, especially in its abstract domain, which according to Rosalind Krauss, in anti-mimetic, anti-narrative, anti-historical and anti-developmental grid, presents in emblematic way the radical departure from tradition, and modern in Modernism.
Keywords
mimesis; abstract art; reality; presentation; perspective; grid; perception
Hrčak ID:
82317
URI
Publication date:
29.3.2012.
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