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Abstract

Paul Klee believes that painting reveals the protofigural which makes possible the visible rather than being the prefigural which is the representation of visible objects. The protofigura, as the invisible, is natural, which continuously forms, flows, and prosper. The prefigual underlies and tions as the basis of the prefigural. Revealing is not the force of objectification such as representation and abstraction, but a non-objectifying action that follows the natural force of formal indication. Revealing the protofigural to let it unveil itself spontaneously. As a result, Klee's paintings are neither objective art nor abstract art, but an intermediate “trace art” between them. Heidegger, from the perspective of “the turn of Ereignis,” refers to Klee's paintings as the non-objective painting that overcomes artistic metaphysics.

Keywords

Paul Klee, Heidegger, representation, abstraction, formal indication

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