Turner

Summary

Dominique Pagani mainly brings up Turner to illustrate indeterminacy. As early as 2014, he cites him as an example of abstract painting in Hegel's sense1. He then returns to him regularly in connection with wind, light and the sea, which he presents as figures of the indeterminate2. He describes him as a painter of astonishing modernity, more impressionist than Monet, through whose haze a locomotive passes3. In 2023, in a session on worldliness in Clouscard, a painting in which only a boat remains serves him to show how the subject's outlines fade, and to illustrate the indeterminacy of the modern object4. That same year, he comes back to these indistinct outlines where one no longer knows where the sea ends5. He also notes that a Turner painting appears on the cover of Féminité et communauté6. From one session to the next, his point stays the same: in Turner, form dissolves, and he makes it the pictorial image of an indeterminacy that is both aesthetic and social.

1. 1M for Music27 Dec 2014 · 8:10
2. 2What is to be done? 2/329 Jan 2016 · 55:45
3. 3Education: can beauty be learned?20 Jul 2018 · 25:24
4. 4Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?3 Sept 2023 · 21:45
5. 5Birth and carnage: the Massacre of the Innocents22 Dec 2023 · 20:39
6. 6Presentation of the 2021-2022 workshops and association membership20 Sept 2021 · 15:14

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.