The gestures of a painter take us away from the common view. The arrangement of objects, places, the colors, and the contours that make up a picture lead us to see and think. An eye is something that has been touched by a certain impact in the world, just as vision and sight amplify the metaphysics of the flesh and call Merleau-Ponty's philosophy from a phenomenology to an ontology of the gross human being. This text contains a reflection on the body and aesthetics in Merleau-Ponty's thought, considering, particularly, the essay Le Doute de Cézanne. The construction of arguments includes other works of the philosopher, with quotes from some passages that examine issues and possibilities of thinking about the knowledge of art, philosophy, and in more general terms, as a possibility of reflecting over existence, the contingency and freedom the body.
body; aesthetics; expression; existence; freedom
