TVORAČKA ISTINA OSEĆANJA
CREATIVE TRUTH OF EMOTIONS

Summary/Abstract: This paper is about immediate experience of vivid emotions which come to be within the artist-artwork-recipient relations, where the artwork is the point of ‘embrace’. I will address the topic from the perspective of the personal experience and artistic practice, which reveals the nature of aesthetic emotions as the one of creation. Emotions induced and made alive through the artwork are ways and modes of participation in its originative truth; they are anything but mere mental events, or an expression of the needs of the audience. Therefore, the creative truth of emotions belongs to the artwork. Their and the origin of the artwork is one and the same, and it is independent of the artist. Emotions related to the artwork are creative because of their origin: if the emotions are separated from the creation and artist, if they are reflections of the audience’s projections or if they are products of the governing culture system, they are false.

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