Ponts dans les Œuvres peintes reproduites sur timbres - INTRODUCTION |
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Je ne saurais résumer l’histoire de l’art
au travers d’une description de l’évolution de la représentation des ponts
dans les œuvres ; encore moins par le biais de la reproduction de celles-ci
sur les timbres. Un témoignage partiel mais non dénué d’intérêt peut être
cependant entrepris, évoquant le rôle anecdotique des ponts dans l’histoire
des hommes, par la place qu’ils occupent au sein des différentes périodes de
l’histoire des styles… |
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Of Bridges on canvas |
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I could not summarize Art
History through the evolution of the representation of bridges in works of
art, and even less through the reproduction of bridges on stamps. An
interesting, though partial testimony, can nevertheless be given, showing
the anecdotal role of bridges in the history of mankind, by their importance
throughout the various periods of stylistic history… “The human soul is constantly waving between two conflicting and ambivalent tendencies, One towards self confidence and control, the other one towards submission, surrendering to mystery and the subconscious mind... Art summarizes this ambivalence by constantly switching between the “sacred”, the original attitude in which man abandons any initiative and determination to submit himself to mystery and gods, and the “divine” where he uses his strength and his own energy to assert himself by accomplishing a self-proposed goal…” The first direction could characterize the dominating attitude in the Eastern World, “mystery is respected and we abandon ourselves to it”; whereas the second one would incarnate the attitude adopted by the Western World since the Renaissance: mystery is challenged and man is more conqueror than subject… From a perspective where the history of form is found within this duality, it would be tempting to also find there in the meaning of the representation of bridges in artwork, its rôle of passage, of transition, between opposite symbolic systems places, or one moment towards another, or coordination between various activities ...It is also an allegory of the human genius able to defy nature, or a stylistic element, formal transition linking the various parts of a composition... Several stamps showing paintings are at best "cinderellas, and in the worst, illegal issues made by unscrupulous traders. Some of these pictures are shown here, but in any case with a note about their nature. |
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>>Voir aussi
Wikimedia commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category: Bridges_in_art |