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The colours of Dona Inés

Pages 117-121 | Published online: 21 Sep 2007
 

Notes

1. Azorín, Doña Inés, Obras completas (Madrid 1948). Subsequent references to this edition that appear in the text of the article will be identified by page number only.

2. See Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (New Haven 1971). This study stresses the heightening of individual perception through the recognition that colour creates its own life force and form. A short article by Rudolf Arnheim, ‘Colors—irrational and rational’, Journal of Aesthetics, XXXIII (1974), 49–54, shows the dependence and compositional patterns between colours.

3. The chapter ‘Madrid’ in Obras, VI, 239–42, gives an indication of Azorín's approach. ‘El color atrae a los escritores del 1898. Viven esos escritores en un ambiente de pintura. Era ineludible que esos escritores, al querer trasladar la realidad exacta, hicieran resaltar el más expresivo aspecto de las cosas: el color’ (239). Again, in Pintar como querer (Madrid 1958), Azorín refers to the constant interaction oí forms. ‘La pintura más animosa, más intrépida, parece abrir el camino para que pase la delicada y fina poesía lírica’ (150).

4. By contrast, the exhaustive investigation by Marguerite Rand, Castilla en Azorín (Madrid 1956), focuses exclusively on colour as a determinant of Azorín's sensibility in regard to landscape. Colour, for Rand, is a descriptive element rather than an independent means by which to create form and image. There are only two mentions of Doña Inés in the study, ‘Los colores’; both refer to descriptions of the sierra.

5. The essay by Hans Hoffman, Search for the Real (Cambridge 1968), refers to the concept of pictorial depth as a ‘pull and push function’ created through the use of colour.

6. In La voluntad (Barcelona 1902). Azorín repeatedly shows that the image is the only true form of reality. ‘La sensación crea la conciencia; la conciencia crea el mundo. No hay más realidad que la imagen, ni más vida que la conciencia. No importa—con tal de que sea intensa—que la realidad interna no acople eon la externa. El error y la verdad son indiferentes. La imagen lo es todo’ (25).

7. See Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception (Berkeley 1974).

8. Azorín always recognizes the intrinsic relation between sensorial elements. ‘Su gozar codicioso de las ideas, del contraste y relación de las ideas; su fruición lenta y suave del mundo, de las formas, del color, de las gradaciones de la luz, del silencio …’ (836). In chapter XLVIII, ‘El primer gesto’, Azorín returns to the same theme. ‘Todo vive por él y para él: la luz, las formas, las cosas, el planeta, los mundos en el espacio’ (838).

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