Love and Art: The Dialectics of Interrelation

Abstract

The aim of the article is to identify the dialectics of love and art, their mutual determination. The emergence and development of self-consciousness has paved a distance of the homo sapiens from his “lesser brothers” — and where once, long ago there was only sexual attraction inherent in nature, man created love as a life-meaning value, which in art, especially in artistic literature and music, presents the dominant theme. The relationship between man and woman, termed as love, becomes such in their mutual desire to make each other happy. The complexity of the intellectual and sensual worlds that is love turns the realization of this aspiration into a creative process. This is how a “work of life” that possesses aesthetic value is created. In such cases, the intensity of feelings becomes for the artist the “muse” that inspires him to take up the pen and create a work of art. An artistic work reproduces the uniqueness and beauty of human feelings, transmits them into the world and transforms them into the heritage of culture. Since love is not a gift of nature, but the result of human education and upbringing, art is a factor that forms the emotional sphere of the reader’s and the listener’s consciousness by immersing them into the experiences of the protagonists. Thereby, love and art, impacting each other, increase the potential of goodness and beauty in the world.

Keywords: love, art, creativity, feelings, meaning of life, self-consciousness, education, morality