 Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics upholds that the primary example of the hermeneutical experience of truth is found in our encounters with art. Gadamer believes this becomes clear once we overcome modern assumptions about the subjectivity of aesthetic experience, in which the being of art is reduced to that of an immediately present object that, in turn, has the property of producing affects, such as aesthetic pleasure, in a subject. In his hermeneutics, by contrast, the being of art is rather a matter of a realization or “enactment” (Vollzug) that we participate in (Gadamer, Truth and Method, 103). The experience of an artwork unfolds as an event of interpretation that, when it is a success, allows us to recognize something that purports or claims to be true.