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Self-portraite [the Well]

May 27, 2008

Situation

R u happy?

I’m lazy, weak, lacking, foolish, poor, greedy, lying, false & wicked.. But, I hardly hate myself who resigned me. Cuz I’m not alone in the universe. One luv & trust me. So I’m not only blessed but here.

Background

Self-portrait

A Self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid 1400s that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture. The probable example by Jan van Eyck of 1433 is the earliest known panel self-portrait. He painted a separate portrait of his wife, and he belonged to the social group that had begun to commission portraits, already more common among wealthy Netherlanders than south of the Alps. The genre is venerable, but not until the Renaissance, with increased wealth and interest in the individual as a subject, did it become truly popular.

Reference

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Self-Portrait

[自畵像]

산모퉁이를 돌아 논가 외딴 우물을 홀로 찾아가선 가만히 들여다봅니다.

우물 속에는 달이 밝고 구름이 흐르고 하늘이 펼치고 가을이 있습니다.

그리고 한 사나이가 있습니다.
어쩐지 그 사나이가 미워져 돌아갑니다.

돌아가다 생각하니 그 사나이가 가엾어집니다. 도로 가 들여다보니 사나이는 그대로 있습니다.

다시 그 사나이가 미워져 돌아갑니다. 돌아가다 생각하니 그 사나이가 그리워집니다.

우물 속에는 달이 밝고 구름이 흐르고 하늘이 펼치고 파아란 바람이 불고 가을이 있고 追億추억처럼 사나이가 있습니다.

1939. 9.Yoon Dong Joo Self-portrait

[Prologue]

Let me have no shame
Under the heaven
Till I die.
Even winds among the foliage
Pained my heart.
With a heart that sings of the stars,
I’ll love all dying things.
And I must fare the path
That’s been allotted to me.

Tonight also
The wirids sweep over the stars,

1941. 11. 20.

Yoon Dong Joo Prologue

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night