In Alain Badiou’s lecture “Speaking the Unspeakable”, he said “the goal of Monet is to directly inscribe on the artificial surface of the painting the light and colours as the process of division of light. But light and its division does not exist at the surface of water … So Monet has to force the painting to express the inexistent, the inexistent which is not things in light, but light as a thing … and finally when we see the painting we understand that it’s not really light as a thing, it’s the impossibility of something like that. But this failure is the victory of painting. This failure is the glory of painting as such”(http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/38/76).
I can’t understand his opinion well. Did he want to express painting has its unchangeable features so painting own its special position in art?
