Abstract

[The arte of “pure seeing”: the role of the interpreter] A work of art happens and takes its form through the recipient’s understanding and evolves in the historical and social context in which it is from time to time interpreted. Some artists are aware of this. Even if their expressivity is different, they share the idea that the first and last source of truth lies not in an objective, devoid of life, fact, but in the human soul. Among the forerunners of the “pure seeing art”, there are Baschenis, Velázquez and Cezanne, who focused their search in the role of the interpreter, making him/her the true protagonist of their works.