Topic Five Comics Poetry Reading
The artist I picked is Marion Fayolle, and these are the artworks I felt most attracted to:
Topic Two, The European Vision of the Rhinoceros.
4- Albrecht Dürer's rhinoceros compared to Hans Burgkmair's woodcut I prefer Albrecht Dürer's print rather than Hans Burgkmair's. In my opinion, while Dürer's woodcut is less realistic, adding features like a horn on the base of the neck, and plates that look like armored and organized patterns like scales in the legs, the artist captured the essence, the mood, the spirit of the animal, drawing him as a menacing, fierce, and majestic beast. Burgkmair's print shows him with a gentler expression, and in chains, diminishing his magnificence. 7- In my opinion, the most amusing depiction of the rhinoceros is Franqois Leguat's, in his print "Voyuge et avanrures . . . en deux isles desertesdes Indes orientales". In this print, the artist depicts various rhinoceros, but it's like he is re-imagining them, based on external sources; one of the rhinoceros is very similar to Dürer's, but Franqois Leguat put his own interpretation in all o...
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