ENG The creative emptiness in painting. Maria Zambrano and the East

This article provides an interpretation of Maria Zambrano (1904-1991) book Algunos lugares de la pintura within the framework of poetic reason: the key to her philosophy. Firstly it discusses the meaning of this reason and integrates into it the pictorial reason and the search for truth in painting. Although both are constantly being made, they need pauses and spaces. These are essential in mediating between nothingness and being, traditional opposites associated with Eastern and Western philosophy respectively. The correlation between philosophy and art, established by Zambrano, Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) and Nishida (1870-1945) opposes these dualisms. This will be exemplified in their conceptions of drawing, of the indispensable unfinishedness of the painting, and of the attention to the blank spaces in certain Japanese paintings as well as those of C & eacute;zanne. The article argues that these medial voids (Maldiney 1910-2005) are part of a mediating (Zambrano) and enlarged (Merleau-Ponty) reason, and are as essential for expression of movement as they are for creation. The poietics of reason achieves this by thus demonstrating the productivity of the dialogue between philosophy and art.