Arte y diseño: desde su diferencia interpretativa hasta su denominador común en el arte conceptual, a la luz de su enraizamiento en lo estético

Abstract

This article shows the concomitances that art and design can have from the point of view of their rooting in the aesthetic thing. Both disciplines are confronted from the Umberto Eco’s opera aperta concept and his prevention with respect to the opening index of a work of art. Transferring it to the field of the design it is stated the different (but not nonexistent one) degree of reading opening and its evolution, when Uri Friedländer remarked that analytical and rational direction have been replaced by sensitive and emotional values in design, offering a wider field of interpretation possibilities. Then the design aesthetic function has moved to be considered as historical metaphor, technical metaphor and historical-artistic metaphor. And how the contemporary art is going to be articulated as thinking of its own problem (the idea of a way of forming before its same materialization) and is peculiarly converging to the idea of consubstantial operative project in the design sphere.