TY - JOUR TI - Signs on Black Canvas, or Charles Baudelaire’s Aesthetics of Transient Beauty and Creative Melancholy AU - Siwiec, Magdalena TI - Signs on Black Canvas, or Charles Baudelaire’s Aesthetics of Transient Beauty and Creative Melancholy AB - This article focuses on Charles Baudelaire’s poetics of negativity which exploits absence, blackness, negation, defectiveness, associated by the poet in a paradigmatic way with melancholy and the aesthetics of transient beauty. The basis of the proposed interpretation is the paradoxical metaphor of luminous blackness (a black sun, a radiance without source, a black star, a black canvas), which the poet exploits in his metatextual works. The paper focuses on poems in which Baudelaire approaches that which is beyond the limits of expressibility and is symbolised by blackness and emptiness. Baudelaire’s melancholic poetry appears as a poetry about poetry, a poetry that is paradoxical in the sense that it contradicts stillness, acedia, and creative stagnation, while retaining its negative dimension, rising up against itself. VL - 2021 IS - Issue 1 (47) 2021 PY - 2021 SN - 1897-1962 C1 - 2084-395X SP - 25 EP - 46 DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.21.002.13577 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/znaki-na-czarnym-plotnie-czyli-o-estetyce-przemijajacego-piekna-i-o-tworczej-melancholii-charlesa-baudelairea KW - Charles Baudelaire KW - melancholy KW - spleen KW - blackness KW - aesthetics of transient beauty KW - écriture mélacolique