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• Henri Matisse

  French painter (1869–1954). In "Eye and Mind" §4, Matisse is MP's exemplar for the line as structural filament rather than contour. "Matisse's women were not immediately women; they became women" — the line does not copy a pre-existing for…

• Paul Cézanne

  French post-Impressionist painter (1839–1906). For Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne is the paradigm case of phenomenology as attention and wonder, and the artist through whom MP articulates his thesis that painting is "philosophy in action." From Ph…

• Paul Gauguin

  French post-impressionist painter (1848–1903). Central subject of Carbone's Flesh of Images ch. 2 ("It Takes a Long Time to Become Wild"). Although Merleau-Ponty himself never focused philosophical attention on Gauguin, Carbone argues that…

• Paul Klee

  Swiss-German painter (1879-1940). In Merleau-Ponty's Course Notes, Klee is the primary exemplar of fundamental-thought-in-art — the implicit ontological inquiry that painting conducts. Merleau-Ponty's commentary on Klee "seems to have push…

• René Magritte

  Belgian surrealist painter (1898–1967). His paintings — especially Le faux miroir (1928), La condition humaine (1933), Le Jockey perdu (1948), Golconde (1953), Le Blanc-seing (1965), L'idée (1966), Le pèlerin (1966), Paysage de Baucis (196…

• Susan Rothenberg

  American painter (1945–2020). On the wiki, Rothenberg is the case study through which Caleb Faul (2024) argues for an interactive ontology of painting — a thesis about painting and the perceptual world that uses Rothenberg's 1990 painting…