In his essay Hashish in Marseille, Benjamin described an evening wandering from cafe to cafe after taking the drug (the philosopher stoned): "I now suddenly understood how to a painter – had it not happened to Rembrandt and many others?
There is in fact a de-racialized use of the word "nègre" by Senghor which is crucial to understand why painter Pablo Picasso, poets Paul Claudel, Charles Péguy or Arthur Rimbaud, philosopher Henri Bergson, etc. have been somehow enrolled by Senghor under the banner of "Négritude".
His brother, Theo, thought this art-loving homeopath would understand the troubled painter.
It is pointless to try to understand Lowry the painter as Lowry the Tory, the rent-collector, the virgin who lived with his mother, the timid voyeur in the buttoned-up mac (the man can't really be an artist, he worked for a living and he never had sex).
Dawson, above all, understood the painter's total single-mindedness, since he had known a version of it himself.
When he discovers the picture was created by someone named Cimabue he thinks, "Certainly a painter would understand me".
Theophanes argues that the ignorance of the Russian people is due to stupidity, while Andrei says that he doesn't understand how he can be a painter and maintain such views.
If you're a painter, you will also understand the appeal of blending orange and purple.
This information is useful to apprehend the emergence of this artistic expression and to better understand the first artisan painters, ancestors of a long pictorial tradition developed up until the Spanish Conquest.
