tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post2728083959074240517..comments2024-01-16T08:28:12.494-08:00Comments on I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE: Check This Outaimaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-86635353254185188042014-01-31T19:56:46.671-08:002014-01-31T19:56:46.671-08:00Good grief, many thanks all around— SC for making ...Good grief, many thanks all around— SC for making these, Aimai for alerting me to them, and both for the interesting commentary on them.Hobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09277940177708996676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-79171741779614519502014-01-05T06:48:51.841-08:002014-01-05T06:48:51.841-08:00ROTFLMAO That "devil" has boobs!
No fe...ROTFLMAO That "devil" has boobs!<br /><br />No fear.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-412245061630941302014-01-02T16:07:17.806-08:002014-01-02T16:07:17.806-08:00Thanks for the kind words!
What I was aiming for w...Thanks for the kind words!<br />What I was aiming for with the rapidfire strobing was a kind of 'Scanner Darkly' Scramble-suit effect, where an underlying theme is hidden behind / emerges from the rapid succession of multiple variations. Also it saves space when showing how a number of (e.g.) pulp illustrators have independently invented a similar scene.<br /><br />The Renaissance encyclopedia-compilers like Aldrovandi and Gesner are good sources of this kind of serial imagery, because they were all cribbing descriptions of animals off one another, and their illustrators would simply copy a previous woodcut or engraving with greater or lesser accuracy. Think of Durer's Rhinoceros and its visual descendents through the centuries. Often the original point in the chain was already one or two steps removed from reality, as deriving from the earlier 'Bestiary' tradition (in which accounts of exotic animals were simply a frame to hang a moral lesson from, and the actual appearance & habits of the animals was irrelevant).<br /><br />Then there was the teratology tradition, endlessly rehashing late-medieval accounts of monstrous births -- and of course re-illustrating them.<br /><br />The 'Ars Moriendi' images are fascinating for me because they draw on an older Medieval mnemonic tradition. Every character in the image is there to allegorize a particular aspect of the narrative. So when the artists copied earlier versions of each image, they only had limited room for variation... if they changed something important, some recipient of the book might <b>fail to memorise</b> a crucial moral message, and succumb to a deathbed damnation, and it would all be the artist's fault! And in a similar vein, the Ars Memorandi / Rationarum Evanglistarum.<br /><br />Later on the mnemonic tradition merged with Renaissance speculations about the meaning of hieroglyphics, and produced the Emblemata genre of iconography (and the overlapping field of alchemy illustration). Often the images were strange, surrealist mash-ups of dreamlike incongruity. And publishers were reprinting older Emblem books with re-drawn illustrations, or copying older diagrams with new text, so the multiple variants again. Yay!Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.com