The origin of the artwork | Martin Heidegger

The idea of this book "The Origin of the Artistic Work" is based on the question of existence, and in Heidegger's view, it is a question condensed into one word, the question of the meaning of the act of "being," the meaning of beingness. We say "the sea is blue" and "I (am) happy." And this is no different from saying: this thing and that thing are (being) such and such. So what does "being" mean in reality? Heidegger believes that we must strive actively to overcome our preconceived judgments if we want to approach this matter honestly. This and that exist. So what makes them be what they are? What are they? Let us pose a general question: what is the beingness of the beings? In other words: what makes something (be like this or like that) exist? Here, Heidegger sees that humans cannot understand their beingness except through their temporality, except through their existing self. Because in their beingness, they realize that they exist and that they have a self-nature that helps them express themselves in different ways, and this beingness of theirs is at the same time their drive to understand the universal beingness. The question of the origin of the artistic work becomes a question about the essence of art. And since the answer to whether art is art or how it is generally, will remain suspended, we will try to find the essence of art where art prevails in its true face. Art lives in the artistic work, but what is the artistic work and how is it?