ACADEMIA EDU. Charles W Haxthausen – Interpreting Beckmann
Nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a ‘philosophical conception’ painted purely
intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each form of beauty and ugliness. If
from those forms that I have found in the visible, so-called literary subjects result . . . they have
all originated from the senses, in this case from the eyes, and each intellectual subject has been
transformed again into form, color, and space.
