| dc.description.abstract | In the context of problems connected with the modern didactic inclination to complementary
reading of literary and visual texts, the author emphasizes the question of the awareness
of an artwork, referring to Martin Heidegger’s phenomenological reflections. An image,
whether literary or visual, is rooted in thought (the field of philosophy), in a system (the field
of aesthetics), and in language (the field of rhetoric). Hence each text has its philosophy and
its independent existence, and this determines its essence. Awareness of what a text is, and
what makes it a masterpiece is crucial, elementary and primary. Truly great art and literature
records and eternalizes, in its language, “the essence of things”, their metaphysics, a moment,
gesture, movement, emotion, or the internal spiritual state. A teacher should direct the
reflections on the essence of true art in such a way that, in the language of poetry and painting,
pupils could find the tools to express the visible and the invisible. Wisława Szymborska’s and
Adam Zagajewski’s poems, which “record” Vermeer’s works in the language of poetry and
interpret the visual masterpiece in poetic phrases, show that eternalizing simple, everyday
activities, which existed for a moment ages ago, must be seen in the universal and timeless
dimension. This is the essence of true and great art. | en_EN |
