En torno a la concepcion de la forma en la obra de Lily Garafulic

Abstract

With its solicitude by the form -first the figurative form and then the abstract one- sculptress Lily Garafulic's work turns out to be, in the scope of Chilean art, a proper instance to attempt a reflexion concerning the problem of the form, that does not claim to stand for formalist theories but recover a key element of the work of art whose s tudy has been postponed by the late generations of Art historians. This reflexion is guided by the notion of unity between form, idea and matter in the work of art, that has not been steadfastly acknowledged in the long Western aesthetic tradition, where this triad of concepts have sometimes been in disagreement, and more recently prevailing one over the o ther, which instead of strengthen them in their unity has led to their mutual exclusion.
Estudiar la concepción de la forma en la obra de Lily Garafulic no implica profesar en el formalismo, ni supone una reivindicación de teorías que hoy pueden considerarse obsoletas. Tan sólo se intenta, en un momento en que la historia del arte parece, en cierta medida, dominada por derivaciones de las tendencias iconográficas, volver a plantearse algunas cuestiones relativas a la configuración de la obra de arte que no pueden ser tratadas con prescindencia de las ideas que ésta contiene.