82nd & Fifth- ‘Exposure’ by Freyda Spira 1504中文翻譯:王夕至譯文校對:Adayikkes翻譯僅供參考 | 影片不得商用
英文稿:
When you first see this print you immediately recognize it as Adam and Eve。
They’re set within a sort of Eden, although instead of a garden, Albrecht Dürer made
it a thick forest set out against cliffs, sort of an alpine landscape。
Dürer was a very conscientious artist, and he was one of the
first to really study nature: the details of the human body,
of trees,
of animals。 Eve
is reaching for the Tree of Knowledge,
which is a fig tree, actually, which the snake is
wound around。 You get caught up in all of the details:
the ibex teetering on the top of the cliff,
the parrot,
the ox
and the cat and the mouse
and the rabbit。 And as you follow
Adam’s arm clutching onto
an ash tree, you see that there’s a large plaque in Latin, which means,
“Albrecht Dürer from Nuremberg made this in 1504。” And you begin to
understand that Dürer’s not really telling you the story of Adam and Eve, but
this is an advertisement that Dürer has created to show off his skills as an artist。
When we come into the Museum we see it in a beautiful mat,
but when you see it outside of the frame,
you begin to understand what it was originally, which was
a commodity。 Dürer employed
merchants to sell this far and wide across Europe, and it made
its way even to India。 Unlike a painting, it wasn’t a static thing,
it moved in society。 And Dürer really wanted to
announce to people across cultures and boundaries that he
was a German artist of the Renaissance and this is what
he could do。 I once tried to make an engraving and I couldn’t even make one line。
It takes an incredible amount of strength and skill。
There are thousands and thousands of lines that go into
these dark areas。 He spent
four years working on this print, four years trying to work out
how each segment of the body was
portioned out in exact mathematic
formula。 He makes Adam
this strapping figure based on the Apollo Belvedere,
part of a Renaissance vocabulary。
Eve is more of a medieval ideal of women who have childbearing hips
and small breasts, and this is his tradition that
he’s still working out。
Prints interest me because they circulate in society。
This was the first print I had seen in the flesh, and for me
it was an aha moment that art works through time。 I can look at this and
Albrecht Dürer through the centuries is speaking to me and telling
me how to read his own image。
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