Jurgis Baltrušaitis. Anamorphic Art

• Jean de Dinteville y Georges de Selve.

• The numbers and letters, the globes, the texture of the clothes are almost deceptively life-like.

• Everything is astonishingly present and mysteriously true to life. The exactness of every contour, every reflection, every shadow extends beyond the material it represents. The whole painting is conceived as trompe-l’oeil.

ARTE ANAMORFICO

• This time, however, it is no longer a glorification of human knowledge but a representation of Vanity.

• The system was established as a technical curiosity, but it embraces a poetry of abstraction, an effective mechanism for producing optical illusion and a philosophy of false reality. It is an enigma, a wonder, a marvel.

Baltrušaitis. ACTO I. PUERTA DE ENFRENTE.EL ESPLENDOR.EL DERROCHE. LA SOBERBIA. EL PORTE. EL VESTUARIO. LA ELEGANCIA.LAS CIENCIAS. LAS ARTES. LA VANIDAD.

Baltrušaitis. ACTO IILA PUERTA LATERALLA MUERTE.LA NADIDAD DEL ESPLENDORNietzsche Había una vez un planeta en el cual animales inteligentes inventaron la cognición. Fue el minuto más arrogante y mentiroso en la historia del universo, pero un minuto fue todo lo que duró. There was once a planet on which clever animals invented cognition. It was the most arrogant and most mendacious minute in the history of the world; but a minute was all it was

PLINIUS. CONTEST ZEUXIS-PARRAHASIUS

• The contemporaries and rivals of Zeuxis were Timanthes, Androcydes, Eupompus, and Parrhasius. This last, it is said, entered into a pictorial contest with Zeuxis, who represented some grapes, painted so naturally that the birds flew towards the spot where the picture was exhibited. Parrhasius, on the other hand, exhibited a curtain, drawn with such singular truthfulness, that Zeuxis, elated with the judgment which had been passed upon his work by the birds, haughtily demanded that the curtain should be drawn aside to let the picture be seen. Upon finding his mistake, with a great degree of ingenuous candour he admitted that he had been surpassed, for that whereas he himself had only deceived the birds, Parrhasius had deceived him, an artist.