Paintings containg a painter painting
Peter Krynicki
contain a painter in the act of painting. For example, Velasquez's The
Handmaidens contains a painter at an easel who has been identified as
Velasquez.
Why would a pinter do this? Self-agrandizement? A form of immortality?
Tia
Pjk
Eliska
Love of the topic - I love what I do and am intrigued at painting that subject matter. Not
that I ever have. But you've given me an idea
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Paul Mesken
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>There are several paintings that, apart from the central theme, also
Or a sense of humour, check out Rockwell's triple self portrait :
http://www.nrm.org/eyeopener/eye_self.html
Rockwell somewhat ridicules the painter's self portrait with this one.
The face on the canvas is an open, friendly and wise one. The one
that's in the mirror tells a different and more real story.
Naked_Angel
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> There are several paintings that, apart from the central theme, also
> contain a painter in the act of painting. For example, Velasquez's The
> Handmaidens contains a painter at an easel who has been identified as
> Velasquez.
>
> Why would a pinter do this? Self-agrandizement? A form of immortality?
>
> Pjk
I plan on doing this same thing one day... Because I think it would be
difficult to do. It's a challenge... not only of skill, but also of
consciousness.
Dr. Slick
Salvador Dali has a couple of good ones with himself painting a canvas.
Slick
C. Enna
says...
> Salvador Dali has a couple of good ones with himself painting a canvas.
>
>Slick
There's also an oft-published image of one
hand painting or drawing the other hand.
I have no idea who the originator was.
Eliska
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>There's a great one by Vermeer. I forgot the title, but the photo is
>on www.artrenewal.org
Although the image is almost impossible to see in most reproductions, Jan Van Eyck is
shown reflected in the mirror in this work
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/e/eyck_van/jan/15arnolf/index.html
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G*rd*n
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| > Salvador Dali has a couple of good ones with himself painting a canvas.
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| >Slick
ce...@noemailever.com (C. Enna):
| There's also an oft-published image of one
| hand painting or drawing the other hand.
| I have no idea who the originator was.
There's one by Escher, but it's not the only one.
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Mani Deli
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>There's a great one by Vermeer. I forgot the title, but the photo is
>on www.artrenewal.org
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There are millions of self portraits of artists from Durer to Picasso.
...no skill no art!
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Dick Harper
> Love of the topic - I love what I do and am intrigued at painting that subject matter. Not
> that I ever have. But you've given me an idea
We're not going to see painted pugs painting pugly portraits,
are we?
Readers seem fascinated by the mechanics of writing, as
evidenced by the number of "What word processor do you use?"
questions. Movie goers want to know how directors shoot the
scenes. Photographers get more questions about the camera used
than about the scene on exhibit.
In fact, I'm guilty of that interest in the process myself. I
interviewed Jay Craven about his recent feature film "The Year
That Trembled." One of my own questions was about the use of stock
footage.
The film has 120 clips of stock footage, all organized around
seven "chorus moments that take us back in the time." I wondered
if it's easier today to work stock footage in.
"In some ways it is," Craven said. "They are digitized and you
are able to work them well and give them density. In the old days,
you would have to do negative transfers and you would lose more
quality than you do today." We went on to talk about quality,
digitizing, and the $93/second cost to license the material.
I'm surprised there aren't more artistic self portraits,
writers trapped by alter egos, and photographers shooting into
mirrors.
--Dick
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Eliska
Harper) wrote:
>Eliska commented in rec.arts.fine
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>> Love of the topic - I love what I do and am intrigued at painting that subject matter. Not
>> that I ever have. But you've given me an idea
>
> We're not going to see painted pugs painting pugly portraits,
>are we?
Hey - don't I know you from somewhere?
Eliska
Dick Harper
> Dick Harper wrote:
> > We're not going to see painted pugs painting pugly portraits, are we?
>
> Hey - don't I know you from somewhere?
Heh. I was the guy in the plaid shirt.