The Art And The Art, The Art And The Art.
On The Relationship Between Art And Power (AI)
Yayıncı:
3. Uluslararası Felsede, Eğitim, Sanat ve Bilim Tarihi Sempozyumu
Disiplin:
Popular Science in Mathematics,Popular Science in Physics
Konu:
Popular Science in Mathematics,Popular Science in Physics
If we deal with the relationship between art and power, considering that the concept of relationship contains a priori "conversion", we must acknowledge that it is a modern phenomenon.At least until Renaissance, art was seen as a mechanical effort that fulfilled the desires of religious or political authority both in the ancient and medieval times.There was no distinction between art and art.The moment that art was taken " seriously" by power, the moment that art began to pursue its own purposes by putting a distance between power and defending its own position against power, though silently, we begin to see in the 15th century.During this time, the gap between the artist and the craftsmanship began to slowly expand.In the first half of the 15th century, cosimo de medici, referring to artists such as donatello or brunelleschi, could say: “These people should be treated as extraordinary devils with divine spirits” (strathern, 2017, p.2 Of course, the purpose of the physician was not only to glorify the Florentine artists; he was more concerned with the ability to judge the position he had as a bourgeois through the artists against the aristocracy.A hundred years later, Giorgio Vasari wrote in the life stories of the artists that the artist was simply not just a man doing business, but with his high intelligence and strong intuitions that was different from the ordinary people.Thus now the artists, as “simple craftsmen”, are slowly starting to get out of being the “slave” of power, and the value given to the art and to the artist in today’s sense began to form in the seed.Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are two very well-known examples of such artists.But we know very well that both of them are not free artists in the sense of today.First of all, these artists were not working for a free market that created the possibilities they could move freely.They had their wives and their demands strictly linked the artist through contracts on what he should or should not do.We can see the most close artist model to today's artist in the 17th century's Netherlands in the face of rembrandt.During this period, in parallel with the rise of the Dutch capitalism, an art market was formed, and artists like Rembrandt have also begun to shape the more flexible desires of the bourgeois, not of the regulatory aristocrats, but of the need for culturalization.However, Rembrandt should not be considered a free artist.At that time the market had no endless alternatives as today, it was a very limited market.Because the nature wanted to bring his individuality and art style to the end point, Rembrandt, as a result, began to fail to satisfy the bourgeois clients (because Rembrandt was a realistic who wanted the emotions and character to be entirely visible in the face and gestures of the figure, the bourgeois who wanted to see their real status more idealized or glorified in their portraits, so that the youth began to fail to receive orders in the age of progress) and the end of this process was to close their eyes to the world as a poor man.It is necessary to wait for the 19th century to see that the artist is completely liberated from his pregnancy relationships that condemned him to work under certain rules.The radical innovation brought by romanticism to the art and the artistic concepts, as the structures and desires of the capitalist market followed, began to form an area of art itself.Artists for Romance.