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The Aesthetic Meaning of Non-finito

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2014, (17), pp.103~131
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Kim,Kwang-Myung 1

1숭실대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

New form is constructed from pre-existing forms. Likewise visible figuration is originated from invisible prefiguration. Visible prefiguration embraces all the phases of sketches, trials, corrections. There is a distance between invisible prefiguration and final figuration. Prefiguration as a ground of non-finito opens up new and fruitful perspectives in aesthetics and the history of art. One of Michelangelo’s unfinished sculptures of figures appears to be breaking out of their stone blocks. The beauty of Michelangelo’s unfinished sculptures has been appreciated highly. Michelangelo, however, a great perfectionist, perhaps would not have considered these sculptures finished or even fit for display. He often abandoned works that he could not bring about his ideal sculpture. In Michelangelo, the problem of realization of the inner idea, according to Plotinos, is to give a shape to an idea. The French sculptor Auguste Rodin was so inspired by the rough, chisel-marked aspect of the sculptures that he frequently incorporated an unfinished quality into his own works. The creative impulse or will of an artist does not appear on the work as it is completed. It is important to decipher the inner creative urge or will through the visible appearance. If we accept the visible as a completed form, then the uncompleted is a pre-existing form. The main ground for non-finito comes from the inner, creative spirit of an artist. Non-finito is caused by the discrepancy between the idea and the shape. Torso as main part of body in sculpture is found in the works of modern sculptors. Albeit incomplete form, sometimes owing to its compressed symbolic meaning, it reminds us an aesthetic emotion as much as the complete form. Gantner's theory of prefiguration is still open problem in connection to figuration.

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