towers or short essay on the minimum (I) Vincent Van Gogh 
Do great works follow a mandate blind fate?
I
The main prejudice faced by the art of this new century is concentrated in a single formula: genius. For almost two hundred years, this fiction has seized the momentum from the creators of the lovely men of letters, the fascinated philosophers. It is a word chosen and founder (and real) has the key to the universe. From German Romanticism this concept has been put as a principle of any art, to the point that our language has only capture this connection in its everyday manifestation. It is a genius, we say with acceptance, with abandon, as a sample of praise. For two centuries, this category has been "productive", since it has allowed to "explain" (especially for common sense) the creation of art. Possessed a direct descendant of Plato, the image of genius has seized us, has built his little kingdom in our memory of time. Undoubtedly, in a context where it was still possible a replica of a strong individualism, solid-understood as access to the infinite-a conception as this was the handle. But after the destabilization of the modern consciousness, before the emergence of a more modest conception of the self, what are the possibilities that offers a glimpse belittling like this? Does nothing but diminish our field of observation. It only twice away from the artistic phenomenon. Its output is unambiguous correlate existential man produces art, because it longs to overcome its finitude. This will end up trascendentalizar the productive sphere of art. Deceived in the justification and the agent, we must not abandon our understanding, leaving us with an easy explanation of this kind are far from reality of the art object. The art tends to transcendence, is not transcendent. His approach to the supernatural is a product of reading, contact with the viewer, not an intrinsic component of the work. This strange magic only happens in the relationship that meets skin, eyes and ears (or, if you prefer, sensitivity, intelligence and perception) to the frightening force that arises in a fixed point and is embodied in one piece either. This new century requires us to rethink these notions or even a discard.
