Heidegger's Conception Of Truth

Martin Heidegger regards language to be the ultimate reality, and holds poetry to be the highest and most authentic form. Language became a quasi-divinity, the ultimate reality or medium which explains the world to us. Heidegger takes this idea further to say all art is essentially poetry. He furthermore states the work of art, or in this case the painting is as dependent upon the painter as the painter is dependent upon the painting. This brings us to conclude that the origin of the work of art is art itself. Art is a way in which truth happens. In art, truth is at work in the work; the establishment of truth is always active in the work. "Art, says Heidegger, exhibits an impulse to realize itself in a work as an entity within the realm of
The truth of the old man in the painting emerges from the surface of Picasso's work in earth. The suggestions given by the old man's physical representation draw him out a man in a truly realistic earthly setting. His figure and the language of his facial expressions and posture reveal him to be a man of sadness, on who is involved in the process of revealing truth and experience of duality in nature. Heidegger emphasizes that creativity in the great artist is an impulse whereby genius allows a work to become what it is. The old man in the painting is reportedly modeled after Senor Sebastian Mazzarella, the blind artist who mentored Picasso in his earlier days in Madrid. Not too much is known about Senor Sebastian, but it is thought that he died before the painting was created. Picasso stepped away from the experience when he could no longer see Senor Sebastian for himself and Picasso was able to simply create his face and body as they were and as they became older. Picasso intuitively understood that it was not simply a task of capturing his accurate physical being, but an accomplishment of a higher level of portrait painting in capturing Senor Sebastian's essence as a