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DOI Artikel:Ławniczakowa, Agnieszka: In the Mirror of a Well: On Jacek Malczewski's self-portraits
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18904#0053
8. Jacek Malczewski, Fisherman, 1909, bearings unknown (Reproduced from an old
photograph)
through the concepts of art, artistic mission, faith, love, recovery of lost innocence and striving
for fulfilment. No individual object from the visible world refers the spectator to these objects
or rather valucs through similarity or association, and therefore an image of such an object
camiot represent an object from the visible world. Moreover, the symbolised values mentioned
above, like all construcled objects, have inexhaustible resources of properties so that their
characterisation depends on the peculiar contcxt in which they are considered, which changes
not only with history but with worldviews as well. Therefore even if certain conventions of
approach are generally familiar, a new point of view, a new context and new premises make it
necessary to constitute their content anew18. This also finds expression in symbolic self-portraits,
the purpose of which is, as I said, to reconstruct the artists' personality as comprehensively as
possible.
18. G. Durand, op. cit,,
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photograph)
through the concepts of art, artistic mission, faith, love, recovery of lost innocence and striving
for fulfilment. No individual object from the visible world refers the spectator to these objects
or rather valucs through similarity or association, and therefore an image of such an object
camiot represent an object from the visible world. Moreover, the symbolised values mentioned
above, like all construcled objects, have inexhaustible resources of properties so that their
characterisation depends on the peculiar contcxt in which they are considered, which changes
not only with history but with worldviews as well. Therefore even if certain conventions of
approach are generally familiar, a new point of view, a new context and new premises make it
necessary to constitute their content anew18. This also finds expression in symbolic self-portraits,
the purpose of which is, as I said, to reconstruct the artists' personality as comprehensively as
possible.
18. G. Durand, op. cit,,
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