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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 16
And this Immaterialness is the very first characteristic of the Greek Color. Even just this would suffice to generate as consequences for the artificial color a plethora of other characteristics, about which is not the time now to talk. Even when faintly, here everything appears most immaterial: Here is the Need of the smoothest painting surface. The natural Color appears the most immaterial: Here is the Need of the most beautiful, most aetherial, most immaterial painting color. And here is thinness, dryness, absence of air, namely the clearest writing of Color, namely: Clarity. And here Everything is Light: Here is the Need of the highest glowing color scale. Light: Here is the Need of the brightest Color. Light: Here is the need of the unity of Color. Light: Here is the Need of few colors. Light: Here is the Need of almost one color. Light: Here is the Need of the slightest difference between light and shadow. Light: Here is the possibility of the slightest difference among two colors. Light: Here it is the possibility of the full Nobility by means of only a few colorings of the most heavenly immateriality and pleasure.
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
