Andric's legend of an artist: Conversation with Goya

Abstract

The paper will focus on Andrić's understanding of an artist and art from a critical, theoretical viewpoint, taking into account Andrić's article (essay, legend) Conversation with Goya. We shall try to demonstrate the situation in which a new artistic expression is set before writers who are no longer only writers, but critics as well. The same artistic expression becomes a problem that is to be understood in a way writers would formulate their own literary perspectives as a specific discursive or theoretical framework. A new artistic expression results from widespread artistic relations, with new aesthetic values accompanying it. We shall delineate this new understanding of art in which a work of art becomes an entirely new realm of reality which follows the decrees of art, with the elements of nature and life, but is also shaped by the artist's temperament and garbed into a new form of existence. The question thereof raised is: how does Andrić see art, a work of art, an artist?.