ABSTRACT: This article examines the philosophical reflections of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze concerning Paul Cézanne and Francis Bacon with the purpose of pointing out the common research of the primordial world expressed trough art. Cézanne and Bacon’s paintings give shape to a carnality which becomes an important philosophical tool to overcome the traditional notion of representation as an oppositional relationship between a subject and object [Vorstellung]. Throughout the interpretation of the essays dedicated to Cézanne by Merleau-Ponty and The Logic of Sensation by Deleuze, it will be possible to bring to light new aspects of an indirect ontology, such as a dialogical and relational universality that discloses any other question: the first word that does not reproduce but make the visible.

KEYWORDS: Relational aesthetics, phenomenology, corporeity, flesh, primordial world.