Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Alireza Tahamatini ¹
• Mohammad Akvan ²
• Mohammad Shokry ³

¹ PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The main idea of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy (1908-1961), as one of the important representatives of French existentialism, is the return to the nature of the first experience of reality, the direct relationship of consciousness with oneself and the world, and the effort to understand the mind and human life in the world. He believes that modern art and philosophy allow for a rediscovery of "The World of Perception", the world that emerges to us through our senses and in our daily lives. Sepehri opposes imposed knowledge and the incompatibility with human nature and equates feelings in his art, both in his poetry and paintings, with sensory perception. This study aims to meditate on the possibility of emerging the world as we perceive it through the dialectic of painting, a world that is not just a collection of what meets the eye but an environment and situation in which we dwell and interact. In this process, by visiting the collection "The Tree Trunks," we will seek an answer to the question of whether, through the primordial world created by the dialectic painter, being emerges, and does the dialectic of painting make the emergence of the "world of culture" possible? This article, in terms of its goal, is fundamental and adopts a descriptive-analytical approach with a historical perspective. The data collection method used is library research, and the data analysis is qualitative. The research findings indicate that art, especially the dialectic of painting, enables a sense of dwelling in the proximity of existence and emerges as a manifestation of our being-in-the-world. In this process, a rediscovery of the perceived world becomes possible, and the emergence of being, as interpreted by Merleau-Ponty through the invisible, what this world contains, preserves it, sees itself, and the inner possibility of the world as visible.

Keywords

• Sohrab Sepehri
• Merleau-Ponty
• phenomenology of perception
• Emergence of the Sense of Being
• being-in-the-world
• towards things
• Dialectics of painting

Main Subjects

• Western Philosophy