Rzecz o „ważeniu obrazu”. Metafizyka w sztuce czasów „zwrotu ikonicznego” w kontekście tradycji

The article analyzes selected works of contemporary abstract, figurative, and immersive art, paintings and installations (e.g. Mark Grotjahn, David Ligare, James Turell), asking to what extent visual experience is completed by verbal interpretation. Observations allow us to suggest a modification of the radical phenomenological theses (Schopenhauer, Scheler) concerning the distinction between the metaphysics of art and the metaphysics present in verbal discourse. The idea of a metaphysical synthesis created thanks to the poetry of the image and the poetry of interpretation accepts the integrated beauty of an artwork presenting the world of ideas visually and in hermeneutic interpretation. The condition of the efficacy of such a synthesis is, however, respect to moral bienséance, enabling integration and founded metaphysically, as well as the understanding that images and pictures always look for the word proper to their beauty.