That's heresay. I say that artists' portraits self-portraits included, do the opposite of what Hegel supposedly said. Artists do "scatter" the image by alluding to numerous others in the work. There's no escape from this in that any painting alludes to many others, it recalls the history of its genre and spills over into imagery of history, etc. and of course, the imagery "template" preferred by a cultural group and time. That in fact IS the "deeper' meaning Hegel mentioned. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, November 29, 2009 6:42:17 PM Subject: "Hegel gets at this idea when he says that a great portrait can be more like the individual than the real individual himself. The painter captures the essence, the deeper reality." http://magazine.nd.edu/news/10495
