TEXTS - values \u200b\u200bexpressed Watch and recognize "It seems that you can lead a life full advantage of the values \u200b\u200bwithout worrying about" expressive. "Indeed, at times they have been condemned as simply indulge in pleasurable sensations. This low estimate was supported by the special terms used in art to describe the nature of the paintings and sculptures (...) Art, it is commonly said, expressing "emotions" and is produced by emotional states. It comes from the "sentiments" and common sense. Now, in common usage, terms such as emotion feeling and not have a high regard. An emotional person is subject to irrational impulses, is a person who thinks evil and feelings, more often than not, connote a vague knowledge: a person who can not safely rely on mere sentiment. It's no wonder that a business built on emotion and sentiment arouses suspicion. "Concerns of Rudolf Arnheim ( Thoughts Art Education , Aesthetica Edizioni, Palermo 1992) - recalling what he loved to repeat words and Stendhal that art is a promise of happiness - lead us to a depth necessary to understand the deeper meanings of life. 
Art education and the development of an aesthetic sensibility can not be relegated to the margins of the system. To see we must be able to watch and you learn to look a lot before I could speak. The relationship between what we see and what we actually know is an ambiguous relationship, and in continuously changing (as shown wisely Magritte). We are surrounded by images that recall and cite other images: you have groped to decipher what we can tell, what you ultimately want to see. The act of seeing can be considered almost a defining moment of a function to be linked be subject to our world, our culture, our ability to understand the forms, messages and visual materials in which we are immersed. Seeing is a creative act and not passive. Do not think only the mind but also the eye, touch, hearing, as they are able to avoid unpleasant feelings or so influential and able - physiologically - to amplify those interesting. These statements are opposed to one of the strongest stereotypes of Western thought that the senses are mixed with uncertainty and deception, and always will propose as a precondition of knowledge, not as a place of knowledge itself. But Kant already realized a different reality.
TEXTS - THE ARTIST transfigure reality ' 
THE ARTIST AND THE REALITY '
"For a serious appreciation of contemporary art I (...) it seems necessary to bear in mind certain principles. And the first is this: that the world of culture as a whole and in its various aspects, is a living world of an organic complex life. His inner process is not in proper more or less, the reality of the pure ideal values, but in an endless and varied labor - to dissolve and reconstitute itself - the reality to insist upon the intimate in her spiritual problems that these values \u200b\u200brepresent abstract ideas like limits. Even as regards art, you must first get rid of everything else from preconception - (...) - the art world is to conceive, like a museum as a collection of separate works, each complete in itself, as a product of the genius of an artist on a technical standard gradually acquired, each mirroring itself, albeit in different ways and forms, the unique value of the beauty that has to appreciate the taste and critical discernment. No, the art world this is not the graduated series of models of perfection offered the pleasure of the idle or emotion of the beautiful souls. It is a living reality, in which the problem of artistic creation s'attua forms, directions, different directions, thwarted by a set of requirements which the balance varies continuously depending on not only the energies of life (...) but the prevalence of the various moments of the creation itself is (...). Every work of art that is so not because it expresses, in a special aspect of the abstract beauty of the unique value - that taste is determined only by the most absurd and grotesque contamination - but as part of that life ' There's art and its meaning and its function, and beyond the creative needs of the waves is flowed, it remains an absolute validity as an essential aspect of aesthetic transfiguration of reality. Only within such a life of art by the artist as an artist, that is, as creator: the miracle of genius is his own participation in the living needs, beyond any personal ambitions, free from all mood of the public, free of 'every scheme ideally abstract, its concrete anxiety problems. Out of this he is not an academic or job. And only within the life of art as essential moments of its constitution for development, sense, efficiency, reliability and fecundity spiritual contemplation the public and the opinion of the critic. Outside of it there is only pedantry and dilettantism. "(Antonio Banfi, Current , No. 4, February 28, 1939-XVII, p. 10)
