Appearances From a Radical Standpoint

Albertazzi, Liliana

doi:10.1002/9781118329016.ch11

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“…In fact, once it is realized that both visual space and pictorial space are not strictly Euclidean spaces, because they are dimensional, coloured, textured, expressive, crossmodal and inherently dependent on the perception of the beholder, the question arises as what primitives, characteristics, and laws regulate their organization. From this point of view, Klee's pictorial work is a kind of 'laboratory' for the identification and construction of a genetic geometry of visual appearances (Albertazzi, 2013). The idea that as soon as a line is drawn, be it angular, continuous, chromatic or achromatic, a surface potentially develops (an idea already put forward in Alberti's De Pictura) was subject to study in all Klee's works (see, for example, Raumbildung durch Bewegte Gerade 1931) (Bätschmann 2002).…”

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Calligraphy and Klee’s Abstract Painting: A Study on Categorical Ambiguity

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This study analyses the categorical ambiguity between visual appearances that belong in different categories, such as Oriental Calligraphy and certain Abstract Paintings selected from the works of Klee. In particular, the aim of our research was to identify whether there exist abstract features at the basis of purely visual configurations that determine the way in which they are categorized. Specifically, the intention was to determine whether, and to what extent, two artistic forms that display documented shared graphic and conceptual characteristics differ, or do not differ, visually, and whether certain features exist that identify them as a specific type of graphic work. The assumption that both categories had shared characteristics that made them graphically and conceptually similar and that resulted in categorical ambiguity, was confirmed. Moreover, the presence of some constituent features specific to one or the other was also confirmed. The results show that a Calligraphic Image and an Abstract Painting by Klee can be ‘exchanged’, but the tendency to confuse Calligraphy with an Abstract Painting is greater than that of confusing an Abstract Painting with Calligraphy.

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