Toile vide, etc.
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"Toile, vide, etc." (English: Empty canvas, etc.) is the title of an essay by Wassily Kandinsky, first published in Cahiers d'art, V- VI (1935), p. 117. 9. The essay is mentioned in Alberto Moravia's novel Boredom.
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- An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance. Almost dull, in fact. In reality, however, crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged. Yet docile enough. Ready to do what is required of it, and only asking for consideration. ... It riddles the visage of falsity pitilessly and raises her voice to a scream too shrill to be endured. --tr. The painter's object
Myfanwy Evans
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