The Work of Art a The Philosophical Word
he work of art as a transfer of truth about human existence can be treated as a sign-word of an invisible sphere of reality. In this situation it becomes a revelation of nature, which enjoys concealing things before the human being. Let us notice what the Wise Man from Ephesus (among others B 123) says that about this invisibility and truthfulness. If we admit that the work of art is a kind of sign of the transfer of a divine truth, which has been revealed to the artist, then an interesting aphorism (B 93) is the one which reads: “The Lord, whose oracle is in Delphi, neither says nor conceals, only gives signs”1. Let us emphasise, after Kazimierz Mrówka, that a sign does not destroy the otherness of nature but “reveals it, brings it out from o t h e r n e s s and brings it near to the human being.”2 Let us try to interpret here the work of art as a subtle sign of this otherness, a sign concealing the truthful essence of nature – which likes to conceal before the human being… The work of art here is also the philosophical word, announcing the life and death mystery.
