“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
Monday, October 17, 2011
Hans und Franz
"The Ambassadors", Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 - 1543)
...behind our desire is nothing but our lack: the materiality of the Real staring back at us.
It's what the smeared image at the bottom of the original painting of The Ambassadors looks like from a single "perspective" (correcting for the anamorphosis effect). So no, it's an HH the Younger "original," too.
-FJ - HH the younger: so that's how real artists paint.
ReplyDeleteIs the skull a Georgia O'Keefe?
It's what the smeared image at the bottom of the original painting of The Ambassadors looks like from a single "perspective" (correcting for the anamorphosis effect). So no, it's an HH the Younger "original," too.
ReplyDeleteMore Baroque empty technique
ReplyDeleteAnamorphoses was "empty technique" in the 1500's? Who knew?
ReplyDelete...and at least 60 years before the Baroque Period even began. Yep, THAT's empty technique all right.
ReplyDelete*shakes head*