Original scientific paper
ANDRIC’S CRITICAL-ESSAYIST VIEWS ON ART
Slavica Juka
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar
Ita Lučin
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar
Abstract
Andric is, among other things, a writer who brings to life every aspect of existence
of a man, what he particularly showed in his critical essay. This paper deals
with essays on Goya and Petrarca. In Andric’s collected works, published posthumously,
the first part, called History and Legend, skillfully describes the tragic
of the undestined love of Laura and Petrarch, while the most important part for
philosophical aesthetics would be Petrarch’s later reflections on the image of Laura
while her staying in Avignon. Here the author combines distinctive aesthetic
objects from nature (landscape), which he alone had a chance to see. They will
be presented in the paper through quotations. In essays about the great Spanish
romantic painter Francesco Goya, Andric actually argues, in form of a dialogue,
the validity and nature of a work of art. The definition of a work of art is yet to be
produced neither by the contemporary, nor by the earlier aesthetic theories. There
are four aesthetic theories which tried to answer this question. Andric tried to
argue for the character of a work of art very boldly through on one side, the person
and work of one of the greatest protagonists of Spanish plastic art – Goya, and
on the other side the figure of the protagonist of Italian renaissance – Petrarch.
His attitude would today be called an “Andrician” approach, because it combines
priorly mentioned theories, which were validated in conversations with Goya.
Keywords
aesthetics; a work of art; Goya; Petrarch; theories of philosophical aesthetics; an artist; creation
Hrčak ID:
229160
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Publication date:
10.7.2012.
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