By John Berger; Tom Overton (ed.)
A significant new ebook from one of many world’s top writers and paintings critics
John Berger, one of many world’s so much celebrated artwork writers, takes us via centuries of drawing and portray, revealing his lifelong fascination with a various forged of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists of their ancient milieu in progressive methods, no matter if enlarging at the prehistoric work of the Chauvet caves or Cy Twombly’s linguistic and pictorial play.
In penetrating and singular prose, Berger provides completely new methods of brooding about artists either canonized and vague, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. all through, Berger keeps the fundamental connection among politics, artwork and the broader examine of tradition. the result's an illuminating stroll via many centuries of visible tradition, from one of many modern world’s so much incisive severe voices.
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His legs, his arm between them, his curved back are understandable. Yet how can he rest like that just on one arm? This apparent awkwardness gives a clue. He looks as though he were lying in an invisible hammock. Strung from where? Suddenly go back to the hand, and now see that all four soldiers lie in an invisible net, trawled by that hand. The emphatic grip makes perfect sense. The four heavy sleeping soldiers are the catch the resurrecting Christ has brought with him from the underworld, from Death.
And possibly the inverse ratio exists because, just as the aim of the machine is economy of effort, the aim of systematic thought is economy of thought. Anyway it remains true that before a Piero you can be quite sure that any correspondence or coincidence which you discover is deliberate. Everything has been calculated. Interpretations have changed, and will change again. But the elements of the painting have been fixed for good and with comprehensive forethought. If you study all Piero’s major works, their internal evidence will lead you to this conclusion.
There’s a lean man with a beard who sells honey and wine. Recently he has taken to writing poetry, and he hands out photocopies of his poems to his regular clients, looking even more surprised than they do. One of the poems he handed me this morning went like this: Mais qui piqua ce triangle dans ma tête? Ce triangle né du clair de lune me traversa sans me toucher avec des bruits de libellule en pleine nuit dans le rocher. Who put this triangle in my head? This triangle born of moonlight went through me without touching me making the noise of a dragonfly deep in the rock at night.