The joy of discernment in abstract painting and literary nonsense

Abstract

The problem of Human consciousness, the search for its original sources is one of the key contemporary problems. Consciousness is always ready to replace the real experience with ready abstract recipes that are products of the reflection of the consciousness itself. The article discusses one of such sources i.e. manifestations of a primary experience of discernment (for example, distinction between hearing and vision, the colour and the light) which are the first steps of consciousness towards the world. At this level, the consciousness has no ready-made schemes yet and precedes its secondary forms such as perception, judgment, memory, imagination, etc. This primary experience is revealed in the arts: both in creativity and in the perception of creative works, for example, in the art of picturesque abstraction or literary nonsense.