Truth In Picasso's The Old Guitarist
Martin Heidegger regards language to be the ultimate reality, and holds poetry to be the highest and most authentic form. Language became a quasi-divinity, the ultimate reality or medium which explains the world to us. Heidegger takes this idea further to say all art is essentially poetry. He furthermore states the work of art, or in this case the painting is as dependent upon the painter as the painter is dependent upon the painting. This brings us to conclude that the origin of the work of art is art itself. Art is a way in which truth happens. In art, truth is at work in the work; the establishment of truth is always active in the work. "Art, says Heidegger, exhibits an impulse to realize itself in a work as an entity within the realm of entities" (Quigley 1). Art is one of the ways truth can establish itself in this realm. Like some before Heidegger, for example Hegel assigns to art a supreme role in the human experience. It is through the deeper understanding of Picasso's The......
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