The apple doesn’t fall far: A word on artistic method

This essay represents an inquiry concerning the method in the arts; as such, it is intended for the affirmation of its significance. Firstly, the concept of artistic method will be explained in view of its relations with poetic impulse and the technical aspect of art creation, and then associated to Longinus?s understanding of the sublime. In between these two opposites, artistic method is seen as dependent from poetical impulse, while governing technical side of the creation process. Since it defines the manner of their selection and use, artistic method gives meaning to the medium and technical practices constituting the making of the artwork. On the other side, artistic method springs from the poetic impulse and has to be in accordance with it. Such proposed meaning of the concept of artistic method will be, in the second part of this essay, illustrated with examples of my own artistic practice, being its place of origin.