Experiencia mítica en la experiencia estética: La materialidad intangible

Abstract

In mythical thought, poetry and plastic art are given in an immaterial way, in terms of the production of images and in the act of creation is gestated indefinitely in an eternal return and eloquence of the archetype. The relationship between freedom and necessity occurs in the linkage of the mythemes, as between art and nature, as Schelling had already postulated. Also as consciousness and non-consciousness of creation. In these relationships, encounters occur that generate beauty thus making the myth aesthetic and unfathomable, since it belongs to the psyche, to the divine. This beauty is generated in ethical choices, bringing it closer to the idea of good. The lack of hierophanies in art implies an artistic insignificance that brings it closer to the circumstantial than to the transcendental. These manifestations, more typical of an art attached to or absorbed by the current socio-political system, have lost their sacred character. The mythical experience has been largely extirpated from aesthetics, becoming ephemeral and devoid of the essence that is most proper to it.