The Anachronic Madonna Lactans: Impersonations of the Nursing Virgin by Cindy Sherman, Catherine Opie, and Vanessa Beecroft

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-440
Author(s):  
Jutta Sperling
Keyword(s):  
Cindy Sherman ◽  
Old Masters

Abstract This article examines Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #216 (1989), Catherine Opie’s Self-Portrait/ Nursing (2004), and Vanessa Beecroft’s White Madonna or VBSS.002 (2006) in relation to the medieval and Renaissance artworks these photos quote and re-instantiate: Jean Fouquet’s Virgin of Melun (1452–1455); Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Madonna del Latte (1325–1335) and Leonardo da Vinci’s Litta Madonna (1490s); and Tino di Camaino’s Charity (1321) and Jan van Eyck’s Lucca Madonna (1436), respectively. This juxtaposition — framed by reference to Alexander Nagel’s and Christopher Wood’s concept of “anachronism” and to Aby Warburg’s notion of the Pathosformel — helps us ask new questions and gain new insights about the “old masters” under discussion.

Old Masters, New Subjects: Early Modern and Poststructuralist Theories of Will

1998 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 776
Author(s):  
Brian Vickers ◽  
Dolora A. Wojciehowski
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Old Masters

Shitao and the Enlightening Experience of Painting

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-112
Author(s):  
David Chai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Song Dynasty ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
Classical Approach ◽  
The Song Dynasty ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Old Masters ◽  
Chinese Landscape Painting

Having reached its zenith in the Song dynasty, Chinese landscape painting in the dynasties that followed became highly formulaic as artists simply copied the old masters to perfect their skills. This orthodox approach was not accepted by everyone however; some painters criticized it, arguing it was better to learn the ideas behind the techniques of the old masters than to blindly copy them. Shitao was one such critic and his Manual on Painting exemplifies his desire to disassociate himself from the classical approach to painting. This paper will investigate the three major themes of Shitao’s text—the holistic brushstroke, brush and ink, and the method of no-method—in order to show how they shaped his view of landscape painting and how said paintings subsequently embodied them. Unlike the near-scientific approach taken by his contemporaries and predecessors, Shitao paints to capture the unifying simplicity of nature, an onto-aesthetic experience that is profoundly enlightening.

Vídeo experimental e autorretrato

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filomena Antunes Sobral ◽  
Daniela Morgado Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cindy Sherman ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Multiple Variable ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Creative Production

In the development of the relationship between the artist and his artistic creation, the deconstruction of concepts and ideas within the scope of artistic praxis leads to the reflection of the crucial role that the artist has in the conception and meaning of the work. His creative production, in turn, appropriates not only the expressive force of the author to assert itself as an artistic creation, but can also assume to be the reflection of the self, its identity and materializes in the form of self-portrait. The self-portrait expands the artist’s interiority, externalizing concerns and questions, and conveys a subjective point of view about himself and his view of art. But how does self-portrait contribute to self-awareness? And how does the artist reveal himself and communicate beyond his appearance?Based on these questions, the objective of this paper is to provide a reflection on self-portrait presenting the results of an artistic installation project that involved photographic language in the form of self-portrait and experimental video to represent feelings of disquiet. Influences such as Cindy Sherman, Lais Pontes or Francesca Woodman, whose creations approach the self-portrait in a not only original, but critical style, stand out.It is a project of academic and artistic nature supported by theoretical foundations. The results allow us to conclude that the artistic installation, which began by presenting a self-portraying self-seeking identity, frees itself from its creator to enhance multiple variable interpretations depending on the observer’s attention.

De Gênero a Dispositivo: o retrato como encenação e produção de sujeitos em Cindy Sherman e Julia Cameron

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2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Gonçalves ◽  
Débora Gauziski ◽  
Grécia Falcão
Keyword(s):  
Cindy Sherman ◽  
A Performance

Este artigo discute o retrato como dispositivo de construção e de problematização das representações do sujeito na fotografia do século XIX e na arte contemporânea. A partir da noção de anacronismo em Didi-Huberman e Michel Poivert, o texto analisará o retrato como campo de forças onde se legitimam e ao mesmo tempo se refutam as lógicas de representação do sujeito na fotografia, através de referências à literatura, à história da arte e ao audiovisual. Para tanto, discutiremos a “performance de si como outro” nos autorretratos da artista americana Cindy Sherman, relacionando-os às “encenações do sujeito como tipo” nos retratos do século XIX da inglesa Julia Cameron, uma das precursoras do movimento pictorialista. Com isso, buscaremos mostrar como a questão do tipo fotográfico funcionava já desde o século XIX tanto como mecanismo de construção e de reconhecimento quanto como forma de problematizar tais mecanismos em distintas épocas e tradições da prática fotográfica.

scholarly journals Palaeolithic art: Old masters, early cultures

Nature ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 532 (7599) ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
Jill Cook
Keyword(s):  
Old Masters ◽  
Palaeolithic Art

Neophilia and Old Master paintings: changes in consumer choice and the evolution of art auctions in the eighteenth century

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-389
Author(s):  
BRUNO BLONDÉ ◽  
DRIES LYNA
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Art Auctions ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Old Masters ◽  
Abundant Supply ◽  
Artistic Legacy

abstractOver the course of the eighteenth century the Austrian Netherlands witnessed the emergence of specialised art auctions. In this article we argue that both the evolution of the auctions and of the prices paid for works of art at the auctions can only be understood as a response to changes in consumer culture during the eighteenth century. Although auctions rapidly gained in importance as a commercial arena through which Old Masters could be resold in Antwerp and Brussels, the prices paid for art saw only modest movement during the 1700s, but then collapsed at the end of the century. By analysing both how local demand for art in Austrian Netherlands failed to absorb the abundant supply of paintings during this period, and how this created a flourishing export market, the study reported here maps the mechanisms that ensured the – often permanent – movement of Flanders’ artistic legacy to collections and museums abroad.

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