(1) El mundo en un cuadro de familia (o de la naturaleza al arte)

Abstract

Behind every thing, every «nature», a previous nature exhibits its enigma compelling us to look back farther and farther. There is no original nature except in the myth of a «good beginning» the reality of which is nothing but the object of an origin desire without any end in time. This is a myth that Plato formulates in Timaios scene with a maternal nature which strange being is nothing more than a being-for-things that finds a passage to existence in it. As a root cause for arts and a kind of aesthetic thinking, all this explains some plans of historians about a development or a gradual growth of forms in art.