Mar 12, 2022
Téchne, quickly explained
Art Is about knowing-how-to-act
Concept of τέχνη (téchne) is very ancient and was originally used to indicate a prerogative of Gods, given to mankind, to compensate for their intrinsic weakness.
Tèchne means “art”, but modern term “art” is the result of a historically super complex and often paradoxal translation process, which can be simplified and structured as :
Techne(greek)> Ars (latin)> Arte (Italian)
Téchne encloses the sense of “expertise” in terms of “knowing how to do”, “knowing how to operate”.
Gestures of a painter enclose sparks of a mood in a frame of re-elaborated memories.
Object of Téchne lives in Its own sense, as the painting sense is found as a symbolic amount of gestures I did to paint it.
According to the ancient greek philosophy, techne does not refers to the act itself, but to the core, deepest system of know-how-to-act, linked to the practice of the act itself.
Credits: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecnica (Wikipedia ITA only) / https://giulianoantonello.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/la-rivalutazione-aristotelica-dellarte-2/ (ITA only)
