Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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Splinters of pain in the doorway of the museum

~ REFLECTIONS OF A POET around the Arctic. ~
Paul Valery speaks of "SUPERSTITION OF THE NEW AND UNDER EMBEZZLES MEN 'BORN TO CREATE' patrons' Incorruptible ' THE ARTISTS' intentions but do not provide miracle." ~

«L’art délicat de la durée…»
PAUL VALÉRY

«Ai miei occhi, l’arte appare come un combattimento contro quello che non è. […] Tutte le potenze umane devono impegnarsi per sostenere e mantenere in vita ciò che nasce e tende a ricadere nel nulla». Paladino dell’aspirazione all’eterno si presenta dunque, nella citazione riportata, l’ingegnosissimo Paul Valéry che meditò a lungo, e in modo elaborato, su quella singolare attività umana, la creazione, alla vigilia del suo totale stravolgimento a opera degli ultimi moderni. Il poeta ligure-francese, si sa, non era un tipo ingenuo, diffidente anzi verso conceptions of the good-natured beauty, art procedures gave very articulate intellectuals, like philosophy, which is also considered "a matter of form" (a bit 'like the Italian Renaissance did not distinguish art from science): artists thought, therefore, his followers - and the writing of the sprawling French philosophers of the twentieth century is perhaps a bit 'from this lesson, and much of the unbridled subjectivity of existentialism, so mingled with writers, sometimes lyrical affair with Hermeticism . The author of Cimitière marin urged them with a rhetorical question: "Perhaps the philosopher thinks Ethics monadology or are things more serious than a suite in D minor? ". Even so, it would have been satisfied by the "conceptual" of our contemporaries who performs with excessive severity thoughts trails, primitive captions-cards: he seeks to understand painting. The fan of Leonardo also knew that the art of his time was developing next to the 'industry profits, "an economic system of the useless, with its own press, its own market, its own stock and also" large banks of storage, where they are earning the enormous capital 'products over the centuries: the museums. The rest was the ancient hatred of the museum by del poeta che lavorava al ministero della Guerra, nulla a che vedere con il disprezzo avanguardistico per gli archivi, ben più elegante idiosincrasia lo muoveva, infastidito dal gesto del custode che gli sottrae all’ingresso il bastone da passeggio e dal cartello che gli vieta di fumare. Luogo senza voluttà, lo definì, dove ci si sente come a scuola.

Di fronte alla produzione estetica contemporanea, quel che appare più irritante è senz’altro la facilità delle sue trovate, di quelle che si ha l’impudenza di chiamare ‘opere’; mancanza di metodo, avrebbe sentenziato Valéry. L’inventore di Monsieur Teste , modello di lucidità asperissima (ispirato, sembra, severe as the grumpy Degas, the master of penalty), is the most cruel scourge of nonsense that could be seen already in his time. But do not fight the charges social perspicacity shine while dark theories circulating. Unwittingly provides little interested in the future, understands immediately what is happening in the field of art. Leafing through his many writings on the subject we extracted small quotes to mention the misadventures of Beauty in the West that claims to post-Christian. Paris, in the first half of the twentieth century, was still a great observatory.

T .. myth .. 's . or riginalit à

"I do not see themselves as the products arising from the desire for 'perfection'. We observe in passing that this desire was outdated before fading down the idea and the insatiable thirst for originality . Why you need to search for perfection 'the legacy , imitation or tradition, ascension to the object in degrees absolute, "while the frantic hunt for originality rejects the past and its degree of perfection, while residing' the differ in its essence "(Letter to Leo Ferrero, 1928).

T .. n ews

"The new one is exciting of these poisons that end up be more required of any food, once we have mastered, you always increase the dose and make it deadly. It is strange that you attack in this way to the most perishable of things, which is their quality of being new. You do not know then that the most innovative ideas must be given a certain air of nobility, no hurry, quite mature, and these ideas must seem unusual but not around for centuries, and are not made and this morning, but only forgotten and rediscovered. The unique taste of the novelty indicates a degeneration of the critical spirit, since Nothing is easier than judging the novelty of a work ( Choses tues). "Nothing is easier," is why the 'critical' now we fill the eyes with the adjective new anodyne in their pages. But because they need "a certain air of nobility" still use the word 'art' and evokes all that is traditional.

T .. reality .. outer

The strange taste of mystical Gnostic who wins the artists of the twentieth century is judged harshly by Valéry. "According to popular opinion and out of time there is an 'internal street' where the externals are excluded because the are harmful, and therefore the scents, colors, images and ideas are perhaps out of trouble and confusion to its perfection, therefore we claim that beings who are consumed with the desire, in joy or trade secret of their perceptions incommunicable them feel more alive and derive more alive than the fruits are more advanced in their depth and in their contempt, more detached from the outside, from what they see as the outside. Life that makes use of those terms are defined and who is satisfied of their ghosts, opposes easily a certain 'life of the mind', or soul, or a life of the pure, one and the other removed from surface agitation that makes what you touch and see. In many essays is the formal warning to consider the meaning of the adversary as accomplices, and deal with essential organs such as pimps. 'Preventative cogitationem odoratus', says among other things, Saint Bernard. I'm not so sure that meditation and the sealed inner deviation are always innocent, or that those who are isolated in itself is pure perfection. [...] Why you want the fund, the fund demanded of ourselves, the appearance of the fund that are in us, for some strange accident, or for an indefinite aspettativa, sia più importante da osservare […] che la figura di questo mondo? […] Una vita dedita ai colori e alle forme non è a priori meno profonda né meno ammirevole di una vita trascorsa tra le ombre ‘interiori’» ( Berthe Morisot ). Questa conclusione è la base morale della storia dell’arte in Occidente. Il Beato Angelico guida in Paradiso la schiera dei cantori della beltà terrena.

L a .. r e s i s t e n z a .. d e l .. m o n d o

Secondo lui, i successori degli Impressionisti avevano definitivamente eliminato l’Avversario, l’oggetto esterno, per impotenza o perché seduced by short-cuts that were less representation. So masterful play those famous lines of Monsieur Teste well say that the resistance that the author, artist, lies in forging the works: "It's not live live without objection, that living without resistance, the prey, the 'attacking another person, identified the rest of the world, obstacle and shadow of the ego - other self - rival intelligence, irrepressible - the enemy's best friend, hostility divine fatal - intimate. "

T .. similarity

allow a certain importance to the similarity and representation. It could take several similarities: the natural, social and intellectual. "The problem of the portrait is one of the more subtle art. It is in fact performing work which, by definition, is subject to a condition not only 'art', the likeness, which is satisfied by comparing an image with a template, or recall the memory of this unequivocal through that. The finding necessary and sufficient, no relation that imposes itself with the pleasure of the eye [...] I realize that the era that saw the decline of taste and attention to be scrupulously neglecting sees the face of the living as much, if not to abandon of all, the age-old practice of copying works of the masters in museums' (De la rassemblance et de l'art).

D escription

"a purely descriptive (as if there are many) is no more truth in that part of the work . [...] In addition, each description is reduced to the enumeration of parts or aspects of a thing seen, and this inventory can be done in any order, that introduces a kind of randomness in the execution. ( Autour de Corot ).

R ealismo

Yes, realism is guilty of naivety, the will to betrays the realistic portrayal of reality. Very ahead of Italian neo-realism does not seem to have been much cited in debates fumosissimi intelligentsia of coffee in Piazza del Popolo. "The arts of 'imitation' move between the well-defined idea of \u200b\u200brepresenting 'exactly' the 'reality', to try to match what you get from a good photograph or fingerprint, and the effects of intervention 'living organism that must make such a representation. But this living organism is far from being similar to any other of his kind. It is made of links "(De la ressemblance et de l'art ).

L '. inflation .. of .. comments

"Modern artists are made of systems to resist a bit 'of time only with the aid of appropriate literature. But neither Titian or Veronese, Tintoretto or Strong said they needed someone who will 'present'. It was enough to prevail. Of the sonnets are dedicated to them, they are not explained. They did not offer the intentions, but of miracles [...]. What's more certain in its intentions and more certain in its effect to a portrait of pure Raphael? "(Article italien ). The art of the last century, it's like a cryptogram, a puzzle that needs butts words. Jean Clair wrote: "A few times we have known as such a divorce between poverty and inflation produced the works of the comments that even the most insignificant of them manages to provoke." Of course, rely on word since the image is aborted.

E clock .. of .. slow

really scandalous years in future post: "Whether it's letters or the arts, the rush to publish or to showcase what you have done looks overall. There is the pressure of the demands of life, but it is not the only power in the game. Our age is very hard with all the virtues that make use of the term. It encourages, threatens, stuns, does not allow you to pass more than two decades to try to live for centuries. The work of mere exercise without hope of immediate fruits of the long preparation of himself to the difference in the world, the will to submission to the constraints that seem unnecessary or are bothersome: we have become impossible or unbearable. At a time when time does not cost anything, there could be an ideal of perfection [...]. more I know, I'm more here is what we're saying through all their great works all the masters. These works bore a prolonged examination. They were worth enough to be copied. Not yet felt that the design or the art of writing were, for a special privilege, exempted from requiring all of our actions directed to some domain of our natural resources. The piano, the mystique itself, requiring years of training, the length of the shooting, boredom and resentment of apprenticeship "(De la ressemblance et de l'art).

I n .. name .. 's . art .. Italian

Rarely was so critical of the "superstition of modernity 'as in the article on the exhibition of Italian Renaissance art in 1935, where thinking of our great painters of centuries exclaimed: "Blessed are those artists, you'd think, that nothing prevented him from becoming consumed in large." At that time, running toward the war, wrote: "The days that we live in are no less difficult or less disturbing circumstances, nor the future less uncertain than in the order of the creations of the mind than it is in the political and that of material needs. We can in front of this dazzling collection of paintings and sculptures do not reflect incomparable very bitterly on the current state of our art? [...] We see attorno, negli uomini e nelle loro opere, come anche in noi stessi, gli effetti di confusione e di dissipazione che ci infligge il movimento disordinato del mondo moderno. Le arti non si accordano con la fretta. ( L’art italien ).

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