The dilated instant, a communion ontological-pictorial between Merleau-Ponty and Cartier-Bresson

uma comunhão ontológico-pictórica entre Merleau-Ponty e Cartier-Bresson

Abstract

This research stands for a instigating enigma: which is the real reach of the vision? This question finds its support in the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, especially, The Visible and The Invisible, The Eye and the Spirit and The Cézanne’s Doubt. The act of seeing express a peculiar paradoxus: to keep the reminiscences of the invisible, residue, gaps or as the author expresses, the search of the art. In especial, in painting and photographing, there are an entanglement alchemic between the touch and the vision, the outside and the inside, the reason and the madness, the world and the person. Both, in brushstrokes and clickes, get closer of a primordial world before the science: a dilated instant. It’s about the “between” that explores the flesh, upholstery of the world.