Art's Termination And Transformation

When modernistic art and post-modernistic art come into being in 20 century, people discovered that the present art is sheer different from it's over passed which the classical artistic theory represented. It seems that art no longer is art and the art would be died. So the view of art's determination of Hegel relived after 2 century all over the world, at the same time, it became a pop topic in realm of art and literature.What is the reason to the view of art's determination of Hegel? Did it accord with the art's present? If we want to search out the answer, we must begin from the view of Hegel.When we came into Hegel's philosophy, we would find the key to the secret. The status of art in Hegel's philosophy decided art's destiny beforehand. Art is only a primary post house on the road that the idea recognized itself and reverted itself, because the art shows the idea by the intuitionistic form. But the idea developed at all times, when it arrived at religion phase and philosophy phase, the art would not be the pretty form for the idea, it couldn't satisfy the idea, so the art exit from the idea's stage, the art was terminated. Therefore we can say that art's determination is the determination of function and the determination of pretty form virtually. At the same time, art's determination indicated that art would be transformed into religion and philosophy, and the fine art was determined in Hegel's system.Thus it can be seen that the view of art's determination relived at present attributed to the culture's transformation nowadays, not to the Hegel's view. The culture's transformation made the present art to sheer different from classical art: it broke the integrity, significance, harmony, aesthetics and logos. At the same time it represented abruption, insignificance, disharmony, unlovely things and pure sensibility. Borderline disappeared between art and every day life. The traditional knowledge about art is of no effect to present art. Modernism and postmodernism is far away from the classical formula, people couldn't find out the real art that they have thought. It seemed that the genuine art was terminated. When the present art is against to our past artistic theory and the new theory isn't up build, in other words,the present art isn't accepted wildly, so the viewpoint of art's determination was fair and reasonable. Regardless of circumstances, Hegel is the first esthetician who brings up the view of art's determination, so our present discussion based on his views inevitably. In fact, Hegel's views gave some elicitations for us. Firstly, the art's determination indicated the art's transformation. Secondly, the signification of art is changing at all times in its history. Thirdly, art shows human's spirit and so it is the human's lasting coach fellow. Latterly, the word of art contains all kinds of art, in spite of classical art or present art; we all group them under the word of art. So we can say that art would not be terminated forever.