Analysis of the Ritornello in the Novel and Painting Considering the System of Arts According to Deleuze with Emphasis on Ontology

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Associate professor, Department of Art Studies, Faculty of Art, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

10.22061/orj.2025.2313

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By studying the system of arts in the views of a philosopher, the criteria for examining the relationships between the arts become clear. Additionally, the relationship between the arts and the differences in their degrees is defined based on their material in relation to that criterion. Accordingly, one can answer the question:How can Deleuze consider the novel and painting from the perspective of common issues? How do these issues correspond with his ontological problems? Through a descriptive-analytical method and a focused study of some of Deleuze's works, one can establish the concept of the "ritornello" as the foundation of this thinker's theory of art.In Deleuze's view, the original novel and painting create a ritornello. The ritornello has several aspects, such as melody, motif-counterpoint, and theme-harmonic variations. These aspects are not developmental points; rather, they are modes of a single phenomenon. The basis of the relationship between characters and figures in the novel and painting is vibration, which creates a monophonic melody. Characters and figures relate to the landscape and animality in both external and internal ways, forming multi-voiced melodies or territorial counterpoints and rhythmic characters based on the intensity and mood of the melodies. Based on sensing the pure intensity, they undergo harmonic changes and open themselves to infinite intensity, and the infinity of intensity.Many of Deleuze's aesthetic issues, such as intensity, affects, percepts, and pure sensation, which make territorialization, deterritorialization, and re-territorialization, seem to correspond as the basis for explaining the Ritornello with the way of life of beings.

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