beetleinabox: Paul Klee, Southern (Tunisian) Gardens, 1919 (private collection). Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes: Color is the “place where our brain and the universe meet,” [Cezanne] says in that admirable idiom of the artisan of Being which Klee liked to quote. It is for the sake of color that we must break up the form qua spectacle. Thus the question is not of colors, “simulacra of the colors of nature.” The question, rather, concerns the dimension of color, that dimension which creates—from itself to itself—identities, differences, a texture, a materiality, a something…
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Paul Klee, Southern (Tunisian) Gardens, 1919 (private collection).

Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes:

Color is the “place where our brain and the universe meet,” [Cezanne] says in that admirable idiom of the artisan of Being which Klee liked to quote. It is for the sake of color that we must break up the form qua spectacle. Thus the question is not of colors, “simulacra of the colors of nature.” The question, rather, concerns the dimension of color, that dimension which creates—from itself to itself—identities, differences, a texture, a materiality, a something…

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