The mystical, Platonic identification of words with the essence of things is what many of Magritte’s canvases vigorously assault. Just as in Saussurean linguistics words do not “refer” to things, in Magritte’s Surrealism the painter’s images do not really “resemble” anything whose sovereign presence would lend it the aspect of a model or origin. When…
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Sacred Mistakes
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.” –Salvador Dali Painting: Salvador Dali, The Average Bureaucrat, 1930
Color Possesses Me: The Art of Paul Klee
Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. –Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off….