The Age of Figurative Theo-humanism by Franco Cirulli

Author:Franco Cirulli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The mutual divergence of bits of beautiful contour is redeemed by their coalescence: symbolically, this destruction dissolves itself. Here, the artwork gestures toward the originary unity of formation and destruction in the cosmic totality; a unity that can only be affectively divined and that is not visible. It is clear that such a formalist bliss can hinge only on the imaginative suppression of our own embodied humanity. The highly idealized beauty that brings this epiphany is also a ruthless elimination of whatever does not fit into a logic of seamless visual necessity. This should make us uncomfortable. Not only Moritz’s trumpet nose is at issue, but even our own. No mortal nose has the concentrated perfection of the Apollo’s (or so Moritz would have it). Fittingly, Moritz closes his own obligatory ekphrasis of the Belvedere Apollo with an imagined immolation of the body: the aesthetic subject becomes pure vision. The finest elevations become visible to the eye, and in whatever appeared uniform, an infinity multiplicity shows itself. Because now all this manifold constitutes only one complete totality, so one here sees at once (auf einmal) all the beauty there is to see, the concept of time vanishes, and all collapses in a moment that could last forever, if we were purely contemplating beings (MW II, 753, italics mine).

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