ИНДИВИДУАЛИЗАЦИЯ

Individualisation

A specific aspect of artistic creation: the ability of art, while depicting the essence and typical features of the phenomena portrayed, to preserve their sensorily concrete features, to reproduce all the specific nature of these phenomena, the individual aspect of the human characters in their originality and harmony. Individualisation is a method of reproducing reality inherent in genuine art. It is an element of artistic typification.

Attempts to contrast individualisation to typification adversely affect artistic creation. The characters do not appear as living people, but as "mouthpieces of the spirit of the time", resembling lifeless schemes and allegories. On the other hand, individualisation by itself is incapable of giving a realistically artistic image; it fails to penetrate the essence of what is portrayed, it turns into a mere record of single and accidental facts. Engels aptly described it as "bad individualisation". Only when individualisation is closely combined with artistic generalisation does it become a powerful means for the realistic portrayal of the world.