In my dissertation, I will deal with the phenomenon of blinding created by color as a screen between the visible and the veiled. I use the notion of the screen as a barrier against seeing the real essence and it is not tied to the psychoanalytic notion of the screen. By blinding, I mean the slip from visibility, the flickering effect of color contrasts on the apparatus of vision, which, as it scrolls over the surface of the image, perceives color relationships rather than relationships in form, so the disclosure of the motif eludes it. Since blinding effect is produced by colour, the latter is also the center of my interest, so I begin by outlining the color phenomenon. I then proceed to analyse the phenomenon of blinding through phenomenology and Didi-Huberman’s insights from the book Confronting Images, in which the author deals with the unusual, blinding effect of whiteness on Fra-Angelico’s fresco The Annunciation. I use this as a matrix, also to understand how colour works as a screen of blinding, in my own work.
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