Artwork from Gadamer s Point of View

In Gadamer s view, the main problem of audience is that to reconstruct and return the artwork to the initial state of its time is meaningless; however, it is to unite the work of art and attention to the melody that this work is of relevance to the present age of the audience. The method of conducting the descriptive-analytic research is library and survey methods; it is an applied research in terms of criterion, and cross-sectional research in terms of time criterion. Data were collected using a questionnaire. The number of respondents is 50 people, the samples were selected randomly from among the artistic and non-artistic people; its dimensions indicate that the audience creates the meaning in opposition to the work and invites the overall structure of the work to react. Thus, the author s intention is perhaps one of the things that the audience sometimes expresses briefly. As a result, only the audience can determine the extent to which certain norms must be rejected or taken into account; the experience of each audience is very important in this process.

Keywords:

Audience , Meaning , Artwork , Hermeneutics , Gadamer