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In the history of Western painting the cloud is a recurrent element that as the visionary French philosopher Hubert Damisch contends is the most fleeting of all masterpieces: clouds can be found everywhere from Giotto to Constable and onwards to Modernism. Damisch wrote in his 1972 book A Theory of /Cloud/ that the cloud is found exactly at the point in the system where it escapes. It vanishes within the graphic system only to discover itself again. Cloud archaeology is a science for angels. If the cloud is the zero degree of painting, geometry defaults where it meets the sky: The system of linear perspective cannot take into account the full complexity of visual experience and hence generates the cloud as a sign, as an agent, as a counter force with which it is in dialectical interaction. The cloud introduces something that has no place in painting but at the same time is painting (Ulrich, vía internet recuperado el 2 de Oct. 2013).

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• Ulrich, Hans. “THE PRODUCTION OF CLOUD A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru”. Septiembre 01, 2010. Acceso 2 de Octubre del 2013. (http://www.art-it.asia/u/admin_ed_contri10/4GIwbjJDkocF1i0sW2ql/).

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