Makes a certain amount of sense: graphic artists tend to spend an
inordinate amount of time studying their own faces, and depicting them. A
model one needn't pay, and complains less than one's loved ones.
Mark
At 11:58 PM 6/2/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>My wife has a theory that artists unconconsciously tend to portray
>themselves anyway. Her prime example is the sculptor Elizabeth Frink, whose
>statues are all of men, which do indeed look uncannily like her. Then there
>is a programme on the BBC in which skulls of ancient Romans, Britons etc dug
>up by archaeologists, are used as the basis for painstaking scientific
>reconstructions. The resultant face is exhibited with great pride as a new
>glimpse into the nature of our ancestors - and invariably turns out to have
>the features of the scientist doing the reconstruction.
>
>One's relationship to one's own face is interesting, don't you think? Would
>you know yourself if you walked past yourself in the street, or just think
>haven't I seen that person somewhere before? And yet we see ourselves fairly
>often - more often than most of our friends. It's just that the
>circumstances under which we do are so different: it's never for long, and
>it's never socially, so to speak - we don't interact with ourselves. There's
>something voyeuristic about it.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Matthew
>Best wishes
>
>Matthew
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 02 June 2001 23:18
>Subject: Re: Perloff intro to Luca
>
>
>>Yeah, created a big splash a couple of years ago--I also can't remember the
>>guy's name. He overlaid a Leonardo self-portrait drawing on the lady's
>>face--bone structure appeared vaguely similar. Of course, the self-portrait
>>was in extreme old age, many years after the Mona Lisa. Art historians
>>didn't take it very seriously.
>>
>>Something like 20 years ago the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity
>>published "The Psychoanalysis of the Dead." A very useful paper. Apparently
>>the dead are unusually resistant.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>At 11:02 PM 6/2/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>>>I recall someone, can't remember who, claiming with all seriousness that
>not
>>>only was Lisa Mona a man, but she was a _self-portrait_, to be exact,
>>>Leonardo in drag!
>>>
>>>best
>>>
>>>Dave
>>>
>>>
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