Le paysage comme fragment de nature, prémisse faussée de l'histoire du paysage

• Autores: Anne-Laure Imbert
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 173, 2011, págs. 21-31
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Landscape is often defined as a fragment of nature: excluding the figures and the history, supposing an esthetic autonomy of painting, as the representation of nature in itself. This approach necessarily reduces the history of the art of landscape to that of a genre intrinsically tied to a restrained modernity. Building on the case of the tradition in Siena, which we believe developed an authentic landscape painting of the pre-modern era, we intend to propose alternative definitions, more open and more complete, of the art of the landscape. We would particularly want to emphasize (along with R. Buscaroli) the artistic unity born out of the art of light and color to engender an environment, and which, undoubtedly better than the addition of natural motifs, constituted by "fragment," characterizes the authentic art of landscape. We go back to the sources of this visual unity in the prior affirmation of a coherence of the landscape image in the consciousness. The art of the medieval painter constructing order of a visione according to the laws of the art of memory can thus be found placed under the enlightenment of the inquiry of G. Simmel, questioning this Stimmung, this atmosphere or mood that creates the very unity of our perceptions.