Sartre and the Relationship Between the Real and the Unreal in the Work of Art

Abstract

The artwork, being imaginary, is created from a removal of real, but always presupposes a reality in relation to which it is removal. There is a dialectic between real and unreal in the artwork. Every artist, and even every viewer of the work, put differently the image
according to the concretesituation in which they find themselves. The imaginary work can be put in relation with a world which search to fight for a new society or justify the existent, to exalt the elite or to mock it, forget the everyday problems or try to comprehend a existence which reveals absurd.