The Origin of Works of Art is an article written by martin heidegger and published in different versions from 1935 to 1960. This is also taken from his speech.
This article is rich in content, rich in levels and complex in content, involving almost everything related to art philosophy and aesthetics-even more.
An important theme is that art is not limited to aesthetic taste. Works of art are meaningful. They have what philosophers call intentional content. For Heidegger, this means that they are the source of truth and a way for the world to reveal itself. In fact, they show the essence of truth itself, that is, it is "revelation". "You might say that works of art reveal information. In other words, they are conditional: they are not only related to something, but also to themselves.
Although Heidegger did discuss works of art such as painting and poetry, his main concern in his article was the buildings that played an important role in community life: the temples of Apollo, Athena and Hera in ancient Greece; Bambeck Cathedral. These works reveal the community members' understanding of the enjoyment of * * * in a particularly vivid, concrete and direct way. Greek temples embody the meanings of divinity, death, victory and failure; Bamberg Cathedral illustrates the meaning of grace and sin.
Heidegger pointed out that Greek temples no longer "work" as they used to-they work because we don't share our understanding of existence according to their meanings. Ancient Greek works of art, such as the statue of Einar in Munich, have "retreated" from their world. We experience them from an aesthetic point of view, not as people who expose the truth.
In order to explain this phenomenon convincingly, we may need to see a contemporary art work. But Heidegger seems to think that there are no works of art in our world. In his view, works of art: our understanding of existence-"framework" or the essence of technology-is not embodied in works of art, because before our time, the understanding of things in the world was from incomprehensible to comprehensible-that is, disclosure. Paying attention to a work of art, including painting and clarifying its meaning, is an incomplete explanation. However, in the age of technology, this is not mysterious at all. Everything is accessible, operable and transparent. Not understanding or not understanding; All we need to know is how things work and how to operate them.