Creator or author. Norwid’s concept of beauty, art and artist or the arts creating process
Creator or author. Norwid’s concept of beauty, art and artist or the arts creating process

Summary/Abstract: The Christian concept of beauty, art, an artist formulated by C.K. Norwid and presented in his Promethidion, clearly refers to the experience of fine arts. The reference to the arts-creating process makes and blends together Norwid’s concept. In order to formulate the definition of beauty, Norwid uses three terms: shape, profile and form. In fine arts these terms have specific meanings, they relate to one another, defining particular stages of a process of creation. Understanding the form as a matrix seems to be significant in Norwid’s concept. It allows seeing the man’s work as an image of God’s act of creation. Humans, created in the image and likeness of God, are capable of creating. We were invited to create beauty and good and thanks to them we discover God as the source of transcendent values and we get close to Him.

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