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Published 2010
Francisco Su?rez (1548-1617) considers it to be problematic that, according to the traditional model of art production, thought only enters a piece of art obliquely, as preconception. Consequently, any analysis of mental creations would ...
Published 2010
Francisco Su?rez (1548-1617) considers it to be problematic that, according to the traditional model of art production, thought only enters a piece of art obliquely, as preconception. Consequently, any analysis of mental creations would have to be a process whereby thoughts are reconstructed as something that lies behind that which is being said. Su?rez rejects this imitation-based model and uses the distinction between act of thought - considered as "focus of the mind" - and the cognized content to develop a completely new model. For him, it is the artist's attention which guides the brush and which thus causes the initially empty representation to be filled.
While Su?rez's innovation hardly received any immediate reaction, it can be considered as a foundation for later approaches to art, e.g. for the formalistic school of art history or for an artist like Paul Klee, who says: "Art does not reproduce what is visible, but rather produces visibility".
