Abstract

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 Mr wka 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