Abstract

This article investigates Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of vision and his philosophical link with the painting of the artist Paul Cézanne. Through the works “Cézanne’s Doubt” and "Eye and Mind", this article shows that this link is not occasional, but it assumes an important philosophical role. Cézanne’s painting could be described using crucial concepts of both phenomenological project and method of Merleau-Ponty, this is the case, for instance of concepts like chiasme and expression. Along this article we could see the concept of vision switching into the meaning of "profondeur". A different meaning which emerges, according to the French philosopher, observing Cézanne works. The vision of both the artist and the philosopher is deeper than the vision that others could have. This is why the very vision is a remains of the invisibility which is to the heart of visibility. Therefore the art experience is a good example of the embodied experience, of the vision that could not be transparent but always chained.