La mitología como materia del arte en Schelling

Abstract

This research is focused on recognizing mythology contents in art; and to identify the problematic relationship between art and mythology base on Schelling’s work. The purpose is to analyze how mythology contributes to the creation of art. This study wants to state a reflection about the development of art from mythology to current time. The myth holds the first human interpretations about the events happened in reality, and how people understood and transformed them in art forms, knowing that this events are the reality and also the culture of this people helping them to define their own development. The Absolute is One and contains the All in itself, it represents the real and the ideal; and only through art is reached the true identity between subject and object. Thus, the Philosophy of Art seeks the essence and knowledge that will be the universal law. The forms of art would respond to the creation of a symbolic world for: subsistence, knowledge protection, and cultural-social organization. The art holds knowledge which demands work and sacrifice, it gives evidence for a transforming spirit. It will be an element for the socialization of a creative nature. This knowledge should be recuperated and treated as cultural contents. Currently, art has become object of commercialization; therefore, this situation distorts the final purpose of art that is passion of creation and the revealing of internal truth as the basis of transformation. Then, cultural knowledge should be considered another way of organizing the development of society.