Creativity and Cosmic Fields of World Awareness/Kurybiskumas Ir Kosmines Pasaulio Samoningumo Plotmes (Essay)

Introduction This essays deals with basic questions of aesthetics. Critics have said that art has many meanings, and indeed may even verge on meaningless. It may represent reality, evoke morality, intimate higher entities and lower images, express human feelings, and trace social relationships. Art may support the interests of the ruling classes, or be a consolation to the oppressed. Yet across all such meanings, there is a common prejudgment. Art has value because it has an inherent truth; it tells a story about something, depicts something, reveals, manifests, and even hides things. The value of art is in its metaphysical or ontological referent. Thus the principles of logical discourse that make judgments about theoretical conceptions are equally valid to make assessments about art. In most cases, the metaphysical and ontological referents are used as criteria to judge whether some human construct, such as a painting or a story, is art or not.