(Like usual, clickable.)Albrecht Dürer - Rhinoceros.
Isn't is amazing what power images can have? I saw this drawing on a tiny wall poster over thirty years ago, and I have not forgotten it.
I am fascinated by the power of patterns, and the way Dürer has combined them here with seeming realism is awesome.
Beautiful bit of medieval art! I have books and books of the stuff. I love it.
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ReplyDeleteSadly, just like "video killed the radio star", photography seems to have killed the draughtsman.
Recommended film: The Draughtsman's Contract.
I've been standing so often with awe in front of the masterpieces of ancient painters in The National Portrait Gallery in London. It's pure photography without film or sensors.
ReplyDeleteit looks like my exwife.
ReplyDeleteIn Russia, it seems, instead of painting the scenery, they paint the scenery.
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