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The artist is immediately affected by things, just as he The form is negation, containment of disorder (Marcuse).
immediately reacts to things (Shelling). The philosopher It is an aesthetic research since the source of inspiration is
as with the artist, must consider the vulgar material of a nature. Painting implies an intense sensation, an ecstatic

supermarket as well as luxury that precludes alienation impulse (Shelling) as Cy Twombly wrote when thinking of
(Marx). It is not necessary to own a luxury item, it is enough Dionysus. The brush strokes become impalpable.
to contemplate it. Without luxury, society would fall asleep on
routine and end up regressing (Paquot). There is a difference The sexual drive called Voyeurism consists in the pleasure

between works of art and other objects. of looking, could be at the origin of the insatiable intellectual
curiosity that distinguishes the scientific and artistic
The research has as its object the forms that own a semblance researcher. Sublimation is the mechanism responsible for
in coining new geometric and natural shapes, sinusoidal, many superior human activities such as scientific research
swaying like beauty lines (Hegel). Since in nature even if and artistic creation. As Merleau Ponty argues, the eye and

geometric shapes do exist, every shape is a set of points spirit are detrimental to the artist who, according to many,
(Kandinsky). It seems that the various connotations of beauty should be silent like Balthus.
converge with the idea of form. In the aesthetic form the The painters who have influenced me the most are Warhol,

content matter is brought together, defined and ordered in Morris Louis, Cy Twombly, Patrick Heron, Hans Arp, and the
such a way as to obtain a condition in which the immediate father of abstractionism, Monet, who does not use black and
forces are not dominated by matter, structured and ordered. who met Tintoretto on his trip to Venice.

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