Transformations of the Creator Man’s image in art

Abstract

Art is not only a form of self-expression, but it is self-knowledge and self-acceptance. From this position, the Creator Man’s image in art represents research optics in which the transformations occurring in human existence become visible. These transformations are connected by a person’s experience of the meaning and values of his own existence in their relationship with the world. Understanding art as an existential experience, and therefore understanding the image of the Creator Man as artistic existence, opens up the possibility of understanding the «human code» contained in artistic creativity. The Creator Man’s image is one of the main projects of art, which has gone through many stages during its implementation. The article consistently examines different historical periods of artistic creativity. Their analysis shows the gradual growth of the individual principle of the artist, which had its own version of the «counterweight» in different eras. On this basis, the author of the study puts forward a hypothesis: when a human artist first realized his exceptional creative capabilities in understanding and transforming reality, his individualized position of a creator (a thesis) always had its antithesis. At the same time, the thesis, which is a constant first established by Renaissance culture, could be modified depending on the dominant social, cultural and artistic meanings and values in a given era, but it never disappeared from art. While different antitheses dominated in different historical periods. The author examines various manifestations of this contradiction using the examples of baroque art, classicism, romanticism, realism and modernism. This allows us to fix the reference points in the development of the Creator Man’s image. Analysis of historical transformations of the Creator Man’s individualization in art makes it possible to trace the changes that took place in artistic consciousness, reflecting the image of the world with the anthropos operating in it.