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Can a landscape become a teacher? What is the nature of clarity?
Pericles Giannopoulos, Divine Appearances: the Greek Line & the Greek Color
Page 15
This and all the Earthy Line-and-Color Dance, praising the Glory of the Allbeautiful Crazy-god of Greece; heights, small rocks, tiny bays, small mountains, bigger mountains, all flowered in the light, rise, rise wonderfully and all their Lines with venereal buttocks, backs and necks, arrive like Nymphs dressed in spring dresses, touch the sky forming the most joyful Dance, rise the Color-Wreath of their heads - a happiest, most joyful, full of Spring, innumerable, thousand-petal flower-color, a spirit full of thyme, full of incense - at the feet of the most high TEMPLE of the Universal Home, which in its shiny light, flame-gold dresses, says thankfully the Heil to the withdrawing King of the World, King of Kings, Earths and Skies: the SUN. Take your hat off and stand for a moment with all your senses in attention and observe the divine Appearances, when everything sings melodiously like a Seraphim the HAIL! They are all more rhythmic than the rhythms of Music, lighter than sounds - more immaterial, more joyful, more melodious than the most joyful and melodious sounds.
This IMMATERIALNESS of the surface of the cosmic Matter, of the Natural color, it can't be but the ground Idea, the fundamental Basis, the inescapable NEED, to which wanting or not wanting all CHROMATOGRAPHICAL ARTS will comply. Supported by that Natural Basis the Mind is going to create the kind of artificial color, the kind of the color-surface, the kind of chromatography, first of all in Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and in all the decorative arts, from wall painting to furniture design, up to all without exception the objects of Life.
Cf. Images of Greece * Oscar Wilde, I stood upon the soil of Greece at last! * Jules Verne, Not anyone can see Naxos on the moon! * Mark Twain, Seeing Athens by stealth and moonlight * W. Davis, The Physical Setting of Athens
