AlbertEnz Monograf final
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COLOR IN THE ARTWORKS OF ALBERT ENZ<br />
Referring to Cezanne, Paul Klee stated, «Color is the place where our brain<br />
and the universe meet.» The history of colors is a very ancient, complex, and<br />
structured tale. Even with Aristotle, color began to be understood as an architecture<br />
of perceptions and suggestions, an instrument of expression,<br />
and a symbolically rich element. In this regard, the reflection of Manlio Brusatin<br />
(1943), a historian of arts and architecture, is interesting, where he affirmed:<br />
«Based on every consideration regarding the nature of color (chroma and<br />
pharmakon), Zenon of Citium's synthesis, transmitted by Plutarch: 'colors<br />
are the first schematics of matter,' tends to indicate the concept of chromatic<br />
sensation within a well-defined boundary between matter and form,<br />
and this formulation has passed from the master of Stoicism to spread<br />
among Latin writers (...)» (5)<br />
Over the centuries, color has been meticulously studied, assigning it increa-<br />
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