Albercht Durer: Self portrait 1491- unconscious revelation through art
- gives away more of his identity than expected
- question of prospoesia
- Self-portraiture as a bodily activity
- "the self turned inward upon itself becomes absolved in and paralysed by self-reflection
- Refer to Kroener article : Prospoesia
- prosopopoeia: communicating to the audience through his face
ReplyDelete- importance of the hand: reiterating his creative intellect; which came first, the hand or the head? ...this effects our view/understanding of the image; relation to the melancholic gesture/pose; hand gesture is used in many of his later works
George