Ways of Seeing by John Berger Seeing comes
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. 우리를 둘러싼 세계 내에서 우리의 위치를 설 정해 주는 것은 시각이고, 우리는 우리가 본 그 세계를 말을 통해 설명한다. words 와 seeing 사이에는 항상 큰 격차가 존 재한다. 말은 시각을 완전히 설명할 수 없다. 우리가 사물을 바라보는 방식은 우리가 알고 있거나 믿고 있는 것에 영향을 받는다. “We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice…… We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. ” <The Key of Dreams> (1935)
Frans Hals (1580~1666), Regents of the Old Men’s Alms House, 1664.
Felix Trutat (1824 -1848), Reclining Bacchante (Nude Girl on a Panther Skin), 1844.
Jan Vermeer, The Artist's Studio, 1665 -67 • crown of laurel -- identifies her as Fame • a trumpet and a book of Thucydides --. A connection with Clio, the muse of history.
Gérôme's painting of Pygmalion • Late nineteenth century; • source: http: //www. uh. edu/engines/faust. htm
Rene Magritte “Attempting the Impossible”
• nudity is a sign, different from being naked. (To be naked is to be oneself. ) • The nude in traditional oil paintings either look at "us" (the spectator-owners in the past) or look at the mirror. Exceptions: Rembrandt’s painting of his wife. • The nude shows signs of submissiveness (e. g. being languid, passive and thus available). • Their look: with calculated charm, rarely directed at her lover in the painting, but at the spectator-owner
Mabuse, Adam and Eve, 16 th c.
Tintoretto, Susannah and the Elders, 1518 – 1594.
Memling, Vanity, 1435 – 1494.
Cranach, The Judgment of Paris, 1472 – 1553.
Rubens, The Judgment of Paris, 1577 – 1640.
Lely, Nell Gwynne, 1618 -1680.
Vishnu and Lakshmi (11 th century)
Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Time and Love, 1503 -1572.
Ingres, Detail of La Grande Odalisque, 1780 – 1867.
Von Aachen, Bacchus, Ceres and Cupid, 1552 – 1615.
Bouguereau, Les Oréades, 1825 – 1905.
Rembrandt, Danäe, 1606 – 1669.
by Rubens, Helen Fourment in a Fur Coat, 1577 – 1640.
Dürer, Man Drawing a Reclining Woman, 1477 – 1528.
Titian, The Venus of Urbino, c. 1487 – 1576.
Manet, Olympia, 1832 – 1883.
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