4/27/2023 0 Comments The cloud of unknowing![]() ![]() ![]() In the 13th century, a contemplative who remains anonymous up to now, wrote the classic “Cloud of Unknowing”, which establishes more or less the same principle, but from a different point of view : to access the Real, one has to suspend the “I” and to do so, one has to pass through a state where one no longer knows anything. But in fact Richter did not invent anything. In the blur, we have a chance of seeing ourselves, while we fabricate the work of art. This principle stipulates that the blurring restitutes the spectator to him/herself. Gerhard Richter, Romantic painter from the 20th and 21st century, discovered a principle which I have called “The Richter principle”. “I have nothing to help me, no idea that I can serve in return for being told what to do, no regulations that tells me how, no belief to show me the way, no image of the future, no construction that I can place on things in order to be given an overriding meaning…” “The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us” ![]()
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