{"id":71817,"date":"2026-04-15T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=71817"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:54:43","slug":"on-the-realization-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/on-the-realization-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Realization of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"Art, like nature, is \u201crealized\u201d through those who observe it. Human beings create reality because they can turn something that is intuited spiritually into something perceptible in the sensory world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo artwork without an observer. This insight has become programmatic for modern art. C\u00e9zanne spoke of \u201cmaking real\u201d and \u201crealizing\u201d to make it clear that the creative process of the artist and the observer does not consist in depicting a given reality but in creating a new reality.\n\n\n\nWhat applies to the created product of art also applies to nature as it\u2019s perceived. In C\u00e9zanne\u2019s case, this means that both Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the painting are realities only to the degree that they are brought forth through the act of seeing. Both first become real in the eye <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art, like nature, is \u201crealized\u201d through those who observe it. Human beings create reality because they can turn something that is intuited spiritually into something perceptible in the sensory world. No artwork without an observer. This insight has become programmatic for modern art. C\u00e9zanne spoke of \u201cmaking real\u201d and \u201crealizing\u201d to make it clear that the creative process of the artist and the observer does not consist in depicting a given reality but in creating a new reality. What applies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9211,"featured_media":71091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9097,8788,8839],"tags":[11776,11783,8824],"class_list":["post-71817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-essay-en","category-nature-experience","tag-ausgabe-11-2026-en","tag-english-issue-16-2026","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71852,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71817\/revisions\/71852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}