For this inwardness and the subjective life of should not appear on a surface as laid on, as material color in strokes and points etc., but as itself a living whole, transparent, profound, like the blue of the sky which should not be in our eyes a resistant surface, but something in which we must be able to immerse ourselves. In this connection Diderot say in the Essay on Painting translated by Goethe: “The man who has got the feel of the flesh has already gone far. Everything else is nothing in comparison. Thousands of painters have died without having had this feeling, and thousands more will die without having had it.”
Seems that it would be also the case if one sets out to paint spirit become flesh, one really has gone further if the painting has the feel of the flesh.
There are lots of reasons to prefer one painting to another, but this all inclines me to defend Hegel out of character. Maybe I will write more in my own space.
Also from Hegel on painting:
For this inwardness and the subjective life of should not appear on a surface as laid on, as material color in strokes and points etc., but as itself a living whole, transparent, profound, like the blue of the sky which should not be in our eyes a resistant surface, but something in which we must be able to immerse ourselves. In this connection Diderot say in the Essay on Painting translated by Goethe: “The man who has got the feel of the flesh has already gone far. Everything else is nothing in comparison. Thousands of painters have died without having had this feeling, and thousands more will die without having had it.”
Seems that it would be also the case if one sets out to paint spirit become flesh, one really has gone further if the painting has the feel of the flesh.
There are lots of reasons to prefer one painting to another, but this all inclines me to defend Hegel out of character. Maybe I will write more in my own space.