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272 PROBLEMS OF STYLE
it is quite improbable that any human beings should discuss matters concerning their everyday lives with each other in the form of rhyming or rhythmic dialogue. When we watch and listen to a film opera, we know that it is an artistic presentation and is not supposed to be nature. This point will be discussed in greater detail in another chapter.
SUBJECTIVE AND TRADITIONAL STYLIZATION
In that synthesis of objective impression and subjective interpretation which is the basic process in every artistic work of creation, style and stylization undoubtedly come from the subjective side. For stylization is always a deviation from authentic, objective reality. The same object can be presented in a great variety of styles, according to subjective interpretations, even if the style is not an individual style but a national or class style. For even these will have to manifest themselves through the art of some individual creative artist. It is not the community of the people who produce works of art but single individuals belonging to this community.
But here we find ourselves faced with a paradoxical problem. If style is a subjective element of presentation, how is it then that the traditional folk styles have always been the most impersonal, most generally valid elements of art? What is the relationship between the arbitrarily stylizing, reality-deforming formalism of extreme subjectivism and the naive stylizing tendencies of folk art which so often result in abstract ornamentation? Why is the one arbitrary subjectivism and the other impersonal, universally valid, objectively valuable.
It has already been said here that the most original and ancient folk style can manifest itself only as the personal taste and artistic intention of some individual. And yet this personal taste and artistic intention will not be merely individual. Every artist who is vitally bound up with the society in which he lives will consciously or unconsciously represent in his ideology and feeling the people whose superpersonal traditional style he quite naively regards as his own.
Traditional folk styles are objective historical facts although stylization itself is a subjective process. If an artist