Klasyczna a współczesna koncepcja sztuki w świetle poglądów św. Jana Pawła II
The classical and the contemporary concept of art according to St John Paul II

Summary/Abstract: In her article, the author refers to the views on art, held by St John Paul II. As the author of the article notices, St John Paul II, in his Letter to Artists compared the human creativity to God’s creativity and referred to him as the ‘divine artist’. The author of the article wonders whether the ‘anti-art’ may similarly be called as imitating the Angel of Darkness. This text constitutes an attempt to show the manner, in which the divine artist and the fallen Anti-artist act and how a man, as a rational and free being, recognising the reality, as if imitates both God and Satan, both of whom are more intelligent than a human being. This text attempts to answer the following questions: is this imitation somehow conditioned and is there a way to avoid it? Can any already chosen artistic path be changed? Do the man and the world assume responsibility for activities? Justifying the answers, the author refers to the classical, Greek conception of art, which explains both the essence and the ultimate reasons for the existence of art.

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