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\u201cA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears,\u201d Gertrude Stein famously said, in a tumult of the senses.  She was echoing Picasso, and the motif echoes loudly \u2013 as a rose is a rose is a rose — across Paris.  Curators and painters, it seemed, are tripping over each other to subvert the common pairing of eye & seeing.  Not that appearances fool the eye, but that appearance is a collaborative process and to seize a fuller reality, the artist employs (his mind\u2019s eye) instinct, feeling, whole self, total focus, third eye, mind\u2019s eye.  A juju, a mix of intoxication and inner penetration.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, Jean Cocteau recounts Picasso talking about the wife of a half-blind painter describing a castle as he painted it.   \u201c\u2026painting is a blind man\u2019s job.  He paints not what he sees, but how he feels about it, what he tells himself about what he has seen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophie Calle, in several rooms of her massive show in the Picasso Museum, questions the nature of seeing by showing us the photographs of \u201cthe unsighted\u201d: the last thing people saw before they losing their sight (i.e., a streetcar), and videos of people born blind standing wide-eyed before at the sea for the first time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modigliani, in an exhibition at Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie, gives us portraits of familiars with filled-in eyes, or two eyes each sporting a different color.  Eyes with the holes of masks.  As masks, as people with expanded vision that see paradox, each eye seeing in reality a different, conflicting aspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Rothko, after immersing us in color, color, color in a retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, pulls the veil: \u201cI\u2019m not interested in color.  It\u2019s light I\u2019m after.\u201d  The forty-four candles of Hanukah have been lit and extinguished, and the times are dark. But light comes in many forms. Remembers the watchword: \u201cIt\u2019s light I\u2019m after.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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