Art and experience

This text aims to analyze some aspects of twentieth-century art based on the transformations that the experience of the world has undergone in the contemporary age. As Simmel and Benjamin show in their works, the very idea of experience has undergone a profound crisis, which mirrors that of daily life in the West, marked by technological progress. Twentieth-century art tries to respond to this crisis by turning, on the one hand, to the search for the immediate and, on the other hand, to a reappropriation, through a conscious artistic work, of doing in the truest sense of the term.