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[referring to Paul Klee's The R Villa] | |||
The capital red letter R inscribed on a landscape-representation seems to annihilate the illusory depth of the picture, especially the depth created by the road or the river. It makes the painting a simple "show". It is written on the transparent plane of representation and through that letter the whole painting seems to become a set of signs, of pictograms, of ideograms; the whole painting becomes writing | |||
Revision as of 10:55, 17 April 2023
Louis Marin
Opacity and transparence in pictorial representation
[referring to Paul Klee's The R Villa]
The capital red letter R inscribed on a landscape-representation seems to annihilate the illusory depth of the picture, especially the depth created by the road or the river. It makes the painting a simple "show". It is written on the transparent plane of representation and through that letter the whole painting seems to become a set of signs, of pictograms, of ideograms; the whole painting becomes writing