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The Eye of Hermes - Approaches to the Pictorial Imagination.
TRISTAN Frederick.

The Eye of Hermes - Approaches to the Pictorial Imagination.

The contemporary workshop
€25,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 29815
Format 16.5 x 20.5
Détails 230 p., numerous color photographs, paperback.
Publication Strasbourg, 2018
Etat Nine
ISBN 9791092444643
What is a work? Essay, novel, stroll through the particular time of masterful creations, The Eye of Hermes offers a new vision of the meaning and even more of the sense of the pictorial imagination. In the form of a dialogue between two characters, the secret history of Western painting is studied in order to detect the significant traces of paintings chosen for their mythical potential. Examples in Dürer, Uccello, Tintoretto, Titian, Poussin, Delacroix, Turner, Picasso… The mythical gaze of the messenger Hermes deciphers the signs hidden, consciously or not, by artists in their major works. What does the haunting presence of the shepherd, the horse, the angel in Giorgione, Poussin or Tintoretto really mean? What strange lesson do the Venuses with the Mirror and the Saint George with the Dragon, the Dead Christ and the Virgin and Child want to teach us? The enigma never ceases. Every creator must embrace it. The invisible is revealed in the shadow of the visible. Thanks to this alchemy of forms, a secret depth is revealed. It is essential for penetrating the mysteries of living art, past and present.
What is a work? Essay, novel, stroll through the particular time of masterful creations, The Eye of Hermes offers a new vision of the meaning and even more of the sense of the pictorial imagination. In the form of a dialogue between two characters, the secret history of Western painting is studied in order to detect the significant traces of paintings chosen for their mythical potential. Examples in Dürer, Uccello, Tintoretto, Titian, Poussin, Delacroix, Turner, Picasso… The mythical gaze of the messenger Hermes deciphers the signs hidden, consciously or not, by artists in their major works. What does the haunting presence of the shepherd, the horse, the angel in Giorgione, Poussin or Tintoretto really mean? What strange lesson do the Venuses with the Mirror and the Saint George with the Dragon, the Dead Christ and the Virgin and Child want to teach us? The enigma never ceases. Every creator must embrace it. The invisible is revealed in the shadow of the visible. Thanks to this alchemy of forms, a secret depth is revealed. It is essential for penetrating the mysteries of living art, past and present.