Abstract

ZILBERBERG, Claude. On tempo in painting. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2011, n.26, pp.135-158. ISSN 2594-0619.

In this study the author proposes condemning the idea according to which painting regards the space and the music of the time. But precisely the future of the painting has added to the line and color a third layer: the touch that gives the plane of expression an unknown semiosis which has as a plane of content the modalities of pictorial speed. These modalities give a paradigm which may be recognized as acceleration, or better yet, as a deceleration. In this case, Francis Bacon would be the hero of acceleration and Rothko the hero of deceleration.