Tvorats i delo
THE CREATOR AND HIS WORK

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we have posited the basic thesis that a created work of art depends exclusively on its creator, namely on his worldview, his experience of the world. Two authors are discussed here, the poets V. Petkoviæ Dis and A. Šantiæ, who belonged to the same literary movement, the same literary school, and should therefore have used similar, if not the same forms of expression. Moreover, the two poets wrote on the same topic, the topic of autumn, had the same audience – and should have treated the identical topic in a similar way according to the same poetics. However, notwithstanding the same elements: the same poetical movement (modernism), the same topic (autumn), the same audience (the beginning of the 20th century), the two poets created two works of art (two poems) completely different in form, and in content too. This has confirmed that within the well-known triad: who ® for whom ® what, the who element plays the dominant part, as the nature of what depends on it, even though the for whom element is identical in different cases. This is a proof of Buffon’s well-known statement – the style is the man, namely that the form and content of a created work of art solely depends on the creator, writer.

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