Live fast, think faster, vague impressions, snapshots...Swift on the rapidly disintegrating speckles of truth, snaring and commenting as they flash into and out of our easily diverted consciousness.Returning, time and time again, in search of the exact moment, hinting at form through vague dabs of insight. Evocative truth lies somewhere between the expression and the perception
Perception
The introductory section of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception consists of four chapters. The first three contain a critique of key perceptual notions as developed and utilized by empiricism and intellectualism. These notions include sensation, association, the projection of memories, attention, and judgment. In each case, Merleau-Ponty finds these notions to be nothing but markers, logical abstractions which misinterpret perceptual phenomena because they reduce them to the simplest possible elements
Monet: Impression"Monet later explained that he had selected for the exhibition a painting done in Le Havre from his window: the sun appearing in damp vapors, in the foreground a few shipmasts pointing. "I was asked to give a title for the catalogue; I couldn't very well call it a view of Le Havre. So I said: 'Put Impression.' Indeed, the painting was catalogued as Impression, Sunrise."
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