Artaud's Transcendental Connection
Yet, how was Artaud to translate the transcendental connection he had with this painting to the stage? We can try to understand his ideas by looking at a few of the elements Artaud endowed to this painting. In the second part of his manifesto titled “Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene” Artaud, with his mesmerizing use of linguistic poetics, recounts his sense experience with this work of art. He explains that he derived some “effects of the mind”. One of which was an overall effect of a “thunderous visual harmony”. Translating this onto the stage, he imagined, would come through the manipulation of the physical aspects of theatre. This would be “Everything that occupies the stage”.