{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 276/1923-06-09/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If, with a sense for painting, we look at an interior view, the matter of most importance is not the figure or figures therein. I once accompanied a friend to an exhibition where we saw a painting of a man kneeling before an altar, his back toward us. The painter had given himself the task of showing how sunlight falling through a window struck the man's back. My friend remarked that he would much rather see a front view. Well, this was only material, not artistic, interest. He wanted the painter to show the man's character, and so forth. But one is justified in doing this only if one expresses all perceptions through color. If I wish to paint a human being sick in bed with a certain disease, and study his facial color in order to apprehend how illness shines through the sensory, this may be artistic. If I want to show, in totality, the extent to which the whole cosmos manifests in the human flesh color, this may also be artistic. But if I try to imitate Mr. Lehman as he sits here before me, I will not succeed; moreover, this is not the task of art. What is artistic is how the sun illumines him, how light is deflected through his bushy eyebrows. Thus for a painter the important thing is how the whole world acts upon his subject; and his means of holding fast to a transitory moment are light and darkness, the whole spectrum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"Painting and the Spiritual Radiance of Color","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Ich habe einmal mit jemandem eine Ausstellung besucht. Da haben wir einen Menschen gesehen, der vor einem Altar kniete. Man sah ihn von hinten. Der Maler hatte sich die Aufgabe gestellt, bei einem Fenster hereindringendes Sonnenlicht gerade so aufzufangen, wie es sich auf dem Rücken des Menschen ausnimmt. Ja, der Mann, der mit mir ging, das Bild anzuschauen, sagte: Mir wäre es lieber, wenn man den Menschen von vorne sehen würde! - Ja, nicht wahr, da ist nur stoffliches, da ist nicht künstlerisches Interesse. Er wollte, daß der Maler ausdrückte, was das für ein Mensch ist und so weiter. Aber dazu hat man nur eine Berechtigung, wenn man dasjenige ausdrücken will, was sich durch die Farbe wahrnehmen läßt. Wenn ich einen Menschen auf einem Krankenbette darstellen will, in einer bestimmten Krankheit, und ich studiere die Gesichtsfarbe, um nun das Scheinen der Krankheit durch das Sinnliche zu erfassen, so kann das künstlerisch sein. 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