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STEFAN ARTENI
On Painting: Phenomenology
On Painting: Phenomenology and and Praxis
SolInvictus Press
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The channel forms as the water flows.
Zen Proverb
Does man touch the mystery of finitude only still in art, which has not shed
its cultic (Gadamer) and ludic (Huizinga) rootedness?
Art is in the artist. The opus is made per artem. Paint continuously alters
the operation: materialis efficetur.
Martin Heidegger
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…the painting, a concrete metaphor of a
general idea of matter…
Painting is dependent upon the specific phenomena of vision: marks are made to be
seen and are dependent upon the inner dynamic of the tool and medium
(Sausmarez). It is one thing to see a painting as a painting, beyond the thrill of
recognition and literary associations, and another to see it as some particular
painting of something (Wittgenstein).
Nicolas de Stael
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Invited or not, the God will be present.
lila - the play of divine energy that mediates between emptiness and the world
of name and shape
In India painting is something colorful (citra), it is a shining forth (abhasa), a sign that
may not become transparent in the act of reference (Vattimo), never
used up by interpretation.
W.F.Otto
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Dionysos, the formless-forming,
constructing-destroying god whose
regard is the mask, whose epiphany
is his hiddenness, who is one and many,
exuberant life and the simple serenity
of Hades…
Eugen Fink
Paint resists and yields, the fluid/viscous vehicle becomes the dominant
substance - a work of binding, duration being engraved in the paste -
a de-formation of the formless to create form (Bachelard), a ritualized doing
which controls the mind: a painting is an articulated relational system, a two-
dimensional field constructed of integrally related areas, each influenced by its
environment and by the operating inter-relationships, essentially vectorial (e.g.
El Greco’s form felt from within) and kinetic (rhythm), following systems of
rules selected by cultural constraints (Chomsky), a map with its mysterious
conventions, apparently a random collection of colors that the initiate perceives
as forces at work that in turn transform him. Being grows out of doing, the
repeated doing gives shape to the artist’s Being (Zimmer).
Paul Claudel
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The mathematics of picture-making lead
me to the physics of representation.
Juan Gris
Paint is a medium that is worked by attentiveness to the way paint as paint will
allow itself to be manipulated in order to obtain from one’s instrument the
modulations that fit it.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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A painting is a thing which requires as much
cunning, rascality and viciousness as the
perpetration of a crime.
Edgar Degas
The techniques may be seen as stratagems; grasp of a method – rules that can
be learned only as instruments for carrying out operative functions – does not
carry with it the ability to visualize the product. The development is not
determined, although it is constrained (Bachelard). The formal demands of
. pictorial space have to be carried out according to laws which hold in virtue of
form, not content (Arnheim). Point, line, extension, plane, are defined
implicitely via interrelations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For it hates the thoughtful God
Growth out of time.
Friedrich Holderlin
The artist relates to form for its own sake. What matters is form-grounding. Form
sets up providing the guiding measure through harmony (armos:
joining/organicity) by means of the dynamic symmetry (Pythagoras) of
proportions. The work made according to art (poiesis) requires choice and
filtering, selection and joining (Ricoeur). Technique – the means and ways of
operation – is determined but has to be discovered. It is closely related to the
individuality of the work and strictly adapted to the painter (Maritain).
Victor Shklovsky
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