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hidden harMony

“The true nature of things loves
to hide,” wrote Heraclitus, and
called it, precisely, Hidden Harmony.
Continuous change is the only truth
we are given to know, everything is
in constant evolution. But is there
something within this change that
remains immutable? An eternal law
that regulates the flow? The only
mathematical law that physicists look
for which final formula that governs
the whole universe? Harmony, that
sound that the Pythagoreans said was
composed of the movement of the
planets in space and which we do not
hear just because we are addicted?
In the early 1900s, the painters of
L’occhio fotografico che the figurative avant-garde began to
abandon the representation of the
ricerca l’infinito nel surroundings to try to express another
content. The great revolution began
with Cézanne. Then Matisse who
quotidiano può fornire renounced the perspective vision and
tried to compose the balance through
ulteriori livelli di lettura tra the use of objects painted on the
canvas not in their real colors, but in
piani, volumi, cromie, tensioni strong colors. Painting evolves towards
abstractionism. Mondrian set out to
e rispondenze inscritte nei represent Harmony with the use of
primary colors and orthogonal lines:
the only ones that, according to him,
paesaggi dell’essere could represent the duality of opposites,
the engine of change as well as for
Heraclitus. Less rigorously geometric
were Kandinskji and Klee. The goal
was to contribute to man’s spiritual
progress. Art is an instrument of
knowledge. The eternal is investigated
through lines, colors, shapes. Between
rappresentazione del circostante per provare ad esprimere un 1857 and 1868 Charles Baudelaire had
contenuto altro. La grande rivoluzione cominciò con Cézanne. Poi already composed the poem book Les
Matisse che rinunciò alla visione prospettica e provò a comporre Fleurs du Mal. Inside there is the poem
l’equilibrio attraverso l’uso di oggetti dipinti sulla tela non nei loro “Correspondances” which is considered
as the manifesto of contemporary
colori reali, ma a tinte forti. La pittura si evolve verso l’astrattismo. poetry. The poet was assigned a role
Mondrian si propose di rappresentare l’Armonia con l’uso dei colori of penetration of the universe, almost
primari e delle linee ortogonali: le uniche che, secondo lui, potevano mystical. The photography of Hidden
figurare la dualità degli opposti, motore del mutamento così come per Harmony or Post-Abstractism presents

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