The way to the absolute

Abstract

Nowadays more and more people, especially who live in large citi- es, suffer from a terrible emptiness and boredom, as if they are wai- ting for something that never arrives. Within modern civilization, its people lose the meaning of their lives, values, and they find themsel- ves in morally decayed. My main purpose, through the medium of art, is to express the complexities and paradoxes of human existance in modern industrial societies- not from a pessimistic, but a skeptical perspec- tive. Alienation, depersonalization, loss of identity in this world by bureaucratic rules and regulations are central problems of all modern industrial societies. The rise of modernization gave freedom, while at the same time giving birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. The chaos or gap between the individual's aspirations and the individual limits of his society gives him some adaptation problems. In the first case, an individual adapts himself to certain external circumstances, and this situation creates some- thing new in him, arouses new drives and new anxieties that are some- times irrational and harmful to the development of men. The individual has to accept the mode of life rooted in the sys- tem of production and distribution peculiar for any given society. In the society, a number of powerful regulations develop which motiva- te the actions and feelings of the individual. The individual may or may not be conscious of these regulations, but in any case they are forceful and demand satisfaction once they have developed. The indi- vidual today is brought face to face with the most fundamental choice between robotism and humanism. The economic and political scene is mor e complex than it used to be; the individual has less ability to look through it. In some way, the process of the development of mankind means growing isolation, insecurity, and growing doubt concerning one's own role in the universe, the meaning of one's life, and with all that a growing feeling of one's own powerlessness and insignifi- cance as an inidividual. The individual has been thrown out from any definite place where he can overlook and manage his life and the life so society. He is driven faster and faster by the forces that originally were created by him. In this situation, he does everything with abstractions,