Comment penser la narrativité dans l'image fixe ? La "composition cinétique" chez Paul Klee

In this paper, which uses the greimassian and post-greimassian semiotics as a theoretical frame, we aim to confirm that the structuring nature of narrative allows to understand the world. Moreover, we discuss to what extent the fixed image – here, paintings by Paul Klee – makes us rethink this model of intelligibility. The temporalization of the fixed image is then viewed as a necessary, but not sufficient condition of narrativization. More specifically, we wish to show that the paintings of Paul Klee focus the attention on the gestation of the work of art, its Gestaltung, that leads to the Gestalt. In order to do this, we introduce the distinction by Guillaume between various steps of the “chronogenèse”. Finally, we identify three regimes of narrativization, namely the modes of “advenir”, “survenir” and “parvenir”.