Final Essay: Does Art have a Historical Essence?

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Does Art have a Historical Essence?
Since archaic times the essence of art has been a subject of controversy. Over the last decade, the essence of art has become a salient topic amongst contemporary artists, art world participants. Art is a form of expression that utilizes different aspects of our experiences and stories. Traditionally art showcases different cycles, times and period. But the level of essence varies depending on the recipient’s culture, beliefs and traditions. Art symbolized different elements therefore there was no universal definition of the historical essence of art This stems from the lack of individuality, and autonomy of art has to follow an ordained path to becoming accepted into a culture, society. Although there is a little literature on the historical essence of art, in the pre-history extensive evidence exists is embedded in the symbolic rise of civilization, archaeology and contemporary new artwork theories.
Essence of Art
According to Heidegger's critics, the indoctrination of the aesthetic approach to art is the leading cause for lack of a universally agreed essence of art. However, Heidegger does not explicitly dismiss the aesthetics aspect of art; as a matter of fact, he describes the anti-aesthetics approach as blind entanglement implicated in the logic of aesthetics. In his purview, this oppositional movement traps and inhibits access to the great significance of art in the historical world. In most cases, art embodies reflecting, expressing, and memorializing figures, concepts that shape the minds and perspectives of people. Therefore, art is subjective and independent of the experiences and stories of an artist. In light of this approach, art reflects different perspectives based on time and context. For example, prehistoric art gives a brief outline of life's economic, social, and physical aspects. Art is a product of human being's desire and conviction to gain a profound meaning in life. In some ways, it can be described as a mode to grasp a deeper meaning of life. Heidegger asserts that art supports populists' beliefs engrained in revolutionary inspirations. In his purview, art brings about political balance as it provides context and timing of the historical events thus allowing truth to spring forth. Borrowing from Heraclitus's perspectives on the historical significance of art, Heidegger builds on the tension conceptualized on the good, worthy, noble that center our structure of ourselves and the world. For instance, in his philosophical narratives, Heidegger narrates the unique role that the ancient Greek temple at Paestum served in unifying the historical precepts by collectively reinforcing present and most important sense (Thomson).
The notion of art as a unifying factor has gained prominence over the last century. This has been primarily attributed to drastic advancement to art collaborations to bring about symbolic art that helps people share in the same experiences that transcends through historical times and events. Directly related to individual historical essence art collaboration thrive on multiple accounts depicting the same story but on a broad level. Traditionally multiple accounts reflect the validity and accuracy of art in a kind of punctuated equilibrium that draws insights to inform the contemporary complex world of artists, philosophers and it audience.
There are also valid reasons to believe that art contributes to the growing body of new art theories. Art functions as a primary building block for new art forms that introduce new art theories. With the continuous advancement of technology and the ability to manipulate manuscripts to match our historical world’s art is rapidly becoming a handy tool to facilitate a smooth transition into the digitally integrated world. Art functions by embodying and selectively reinforcing the traditional art community’s implicit sense of objects of paramount importance and their primary reason of existence. They also outline detailed aspects and elements of the affluent and profound remarkable events that deserve recognition and passed down to generations in the modern contemporary world.
According to Dreyfus artworks manifests, articulate and reconfigure human beings into models of ontological historicity thus shaping the traditions and values which showcases the reality and past in a more profound manner (Kockelmans). In furtherance Heidegger notes that art can serve its historical essence through three diverse methods. Firstly art can disclose its purpose through a process coined as thing thinking. Primarily this theory helps the art world understand things that matter deeply and to establish the core role of its existence. Next art can disclose its power and essence through a paradigmatic approach which is clearly illustrated in artworks such as Holderin poetry and Van Gogh’s painting which highly the distinct features of art as well as its functionality. Van Gogh’s paints depict the role of art in humanity to help us unleash as what is supposed to help us chronologically transcend through the five different western epochs. However the Van Gogh’s employs both the paradigmatic and a macro paradigmatic work, as it shows us what art is in a way that shifts our primary understanding of what it means for anything to exist and how art can usher us into a genuine meaningful postmodern world. Lastly art can achieve its ...