The anatomy-physiology of art

Perhaps the whole pathos of this work consists not only in constructing a theory describing the system of art as a form of consciousness, but also in studying the foundations of this system (taste and myth as the beginnings of art in their dialectics) in the process of determining the status of art as an original, self-sufficient phenomenon, not reducible, exclusively to an object or a subject, a society or an individual. Art is neither a sum nor a reflection of the consciousness of others, but in fact - and this is the personalistic tone of the prolegomena of this work - an independent Essence! Art is not a parallel reality into which man flees from the humdrum of everyday existence, but a unique form of spiritual awareness, a realization of the universality of being itself. Art is a sphere of spiritual and material activity in which there is no imitation of organic phenomena or adaptation to natural phenomena of colors, stone, metal, sound, etc., but giving them life. Creativity, in fact, is first of all a process of revitalizing matter, it is a cycle of translating artistic material into "artistic flesh", in the process of creating works of art.