Van Gogh

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani often returns to a sentence of Van Gogh's: "We can only make our paintings speak." He sets it against interpretation: the point is to make the text speak rather than speak about it12, and the idea must be externalised in the work3. He mentions the move to Arles several times: the painter goes there looking for the harsh, vivid light of the South, tired of blur, in the full force of the mistral45. In painting, he links Van Gogh with gradation, which he sets against Gauguin's line6. He compares Van Gogh's stars swirling over the Rhône with "Nuit rhénane", and he speaks of coloured water "à la Van Gogh" in connection with Nerval. He also counts him among those who lived the aesthetic adventure to the end and went under, as a figure of modern madness7. Finally, he finds the way Heidegger comments on Van Gogh's peasant shoes obscene8.

1. 1#5.9 Kafka Un message impérial29 Jul 2019 · 16:37
2. 2Debussy27 Mar 2020 · 28:14
3. 3Naissance et carnage - Le massacre des Innocents22 Dec 2023 · 2:08:54
4. 4#2.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 1:42:27
5. 5#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 52:11
6. 6Musicosophie 17. L'interprétation25 Mar 2021 · 39:59
7. 7L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 1:24:30
8. 8La panzer-philosophie contre le cogito : néo-fascisme ou idéologie de la nature. Heidegger/Descartes5 Mar 2022 · 7:26

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