![]() ![]() And what has filled the vacuum near the centre of Gasset's big circle? Try sports. The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature: Ortega y Gasset, Jos: 0884212158335: : Books Skip to main content. It was a very cogent, early realization of a trend that continued, even accelerated, during most of the rest of his century. And in doing so, they were shifting the center of gravity of the art world, moving it more and more toward the periphery of the rest of the world. Velazquez, Goya and the Dehumanization of Art by José Ortega y Gasset 4. The problem, as he saw it however, came down to the fact that artists were deliberately going to greater and greater extremes in trying to make this understanding more and more difficult. He doesn't denigrate this movement, he only takes note of it as being more and more "art only for artists." And by artists, he doesn't mean only those who create, but all those who understand. By dehumanization, Gasset meant art's veering away from human forms or the depiction of real objects into a reality of the artist's own making. ![]() He wrote specifically of painting but at the time, his words could have applied to several art disciplines. ![]() He blamed what he called the "dehumanization" of art as the culprit in this change. But as early as 1925, Gasset was already longing for the turn-of-the-century goodoledays as he took note of the fact that, even then, the "art circle" was moving significantly further and further from the center of the larger circle of human society, becoming less and less important in the overall scheme of things. ![]()
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