Series · 20 May 2022Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics- 1:22:13He painted the Virgin kneeling, the religious and the artistic taken at first degree.
Fra Angelico
Appears in 7 videos · 8 passages.
Summary
Dominique Pagani comes back several times, from 2016 to 2022, to one and the same feature of Fra Angelico: he painted the Virgin and the saints on his knees1. Pagani takes this as the example of an immediate relation to the sacred, specific to the age of faith2. For the painter, the work is not a representation but a presence of the sacred, and devotion comes before art34. Pagani speaks of a painting done "at face value," that of religious substantialism, in which the religious and the artistic are not yet separated56. He contrasts this attitude with the moderns' "museum-like" relation to art7: the modern can no longer paint this way, and this immediate relation has become impossible. In a 2022 session on aesthetics, he also cites Fra Angelico to illustrate the artist's movement of externalization8. These references appear in sessions devoted to Hegel, to the Phenomenology of Spirit and to aesthetics.
- 1Hegel on the Beach 1/51 Feb 2016 · 2:17:17
- 2#8 Harnessed to confinitude17 May 2020 · 1:49:27
- 3#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)16 May 2018 · 1:47:29
- 4#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?10 Feb 2022 · 0:54
- 5#11 Return to the logics of the subject21 Jun 2020 · 1:22:30
- 6Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics20 May 2022 · 1:22:13
- 7The Phenomenology of Spirit2 Jul 2018 · 1:32:07
- 8#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?10 Feb 2022 · 1:24:52
Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Series · 20 May 2022Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics
Cycle 10 · 10 Feb 2022#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?
Cycle 8 · 21 Jun 2020#11 Return to the logics of the subject- 1:22:30He painted at the first degree of religious substantialism, which the modern can no longer do.
Cycle 7 · 17 May 2020#8 Harnessed to confinitude- 1:49:27Painted the Virgin and the saints kneeling, in the age of faith.
Talks · 2 Jul 2018The Phenomenology of Spirit- 1:32:07His relation to art is not the museum-like relation of the moderns.
Cycle 4 · 16 May 2018#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:47:29Painted on his knees: for him the sacred, not representation.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 1/5- 2:17:17Painted the Virgin kneeling: an immediate relation to the sacred that has become impossible.