Examining the concept of the body of consciousness from the perspective of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and its analysis in the works of impressionism style: relying on the works of Claude Monet

Subject Areas : Epistemological researches

elham asgari abyaneh ¹ , Mohammad Reza Sharifzadeh ^{2 *} , abolfazl davodi roknabadi ³ , mostafa mokhtabad amrai ⁴

1 - department of art philosophy&;central tehran branch&;islamic azad university'tehran'iran
2 - Professor of Department of Philosophy of Art, Faculty of Art, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
3 - design&clothing departement'yazd branch'islamic azad university'yazd'iran
4 - department of deramatic literature'tarbiat modares university'tehran'iran

Received: 2024-01-10 Accepted : 2024-08-26 Published : 2024-09-24

Keywords: : perception, conscious-body, Merleau-Ponty, impressionism, Claude Monet,

Abstract :

Merleau-Ponty, like other existentialist philosophers, believes that every human being has a special situation, position and existence in the world, that this existence is a product of being-in-the-world, and on the other hand, man, from his point of view, is a special situation and being-in-the-world. - Experiences the world. And the body makes the living man find himself and his existence. In this article, an attempt is made to evaluate Merleau-Ponty's attitude about the two previous concepts in the works and the attitude of the Impressionists and the works of Claude Monet as an example. Monet's works express Merleau-Ponty's conscious body experience, which portrays the situation he perceives based on living and being-in-the-world. In fact, this being in the world, in Merleau-Ponty's interpretation, is the same way of life that the impressionists use for illustration, and it has become their painting style. The main question of the article is that considering that Merleau-Ponty believes that human connection with the outside world is based on sensory perception, and on the other hand, art, especially painting, is a manifestation of sensory perception, is the attitude of the Impressionists, including Claude Monet, also in drawing the outside world? Is it like Merleau-Ponty's attitude or not? Because Claude Monet also achieves a special kind of sensory and visual perception of the outside world by using light in his paintings, and this makes Monet aligned with Merleau-Ponty's thinking.

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