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<abstract xmlns="http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0">The phenomenon of the luminous colour, discovered by the artists during their&#13;
journeys in the Southern countries, appears to us as a means of delineating the known world&#13;
from the space beyond it. According to the conception of this other world, the colour&#13;
related to the light creates its proper place, where the human being is condemned to subsist.&#13;
Pseudo-Aristotle, in his treatise De coloribus, was probably the first to write about the&#13;
importance of light in the formation of colours and the ability of the solar light to change all&#13;
colours into golden shades. The “dazzling” world of the sunny countries is characterized by&#13;
its uniformity of chromatics, which has the property to make the human beings dive into the&#13;
land of dreams (Delacroix, Le Clézio) and to turn the reality into illusion (Gautier).&#13;
Moreover, it is this very world “suspended” in the void, this very space in which time is&#13;
calculated according to specific rules, that leads to the revelation of truth.</abstract>
