Painting and Ontology: D. H. Lawrence as an Art Historian

More than any other twentieth-century writer, D. H. Lawrence developed a profound understanding of painting and evaluated this art form through the prism his idiosyncratic ontological scheme. In allegiance to polaristic philosophy, in which everything is created by opposition static dynamic, mind body, optical tactile, “Will-to-Motion” “Will-to- Inertia,” light darkness, conceived history visual arts as mirror universal ultimate metaphysical forces. Despite general view that Western was entirely under dominion idea, mind, light, pointed several examples dark, bodily, haptic experiences were processed pictorially. This essay intends introduce an historian who understood works historical periods constituted out never-ending power struggle between corporeal spiritual, always sought called for their reconciliation balance literature.