Well,.... what could it be that I'm asking a few of you to maybe agree with me on,... you know,... the ones who have accidentally stumbled into my blogs? I believe right now that this MFA world of ours is so controlled by special interests, that not many of you will really understand the true meaning of what I will be bringing up. I'll leave it pretty much open for speculation and what you might have to say about this work of art I'll be showing you. If you have any questions about anything feel free to ask.
Now, in looking at this portion of this supposed masterpiece painting of a self-portrait of Albrecht Durer, I'm asking,... is Albrecht wearing just one glove? You might even come to the conclusion yourselves of possibly a thumb-less glove of some type. Does this look right to the most of you, say something that Durer as the artist he was and would have painted himself warring? Maybe some MFA experts might say in this way,... just to save face, maybe it is some kind of a painters glove to keep the paint off of his knuckles as he is painting you see.
This Durer self-portrait was supposedly painted in 1493 and is hanging at the Prado museum in Madrid, spain. Well, after saying I'd be happy to discuss this painting with you and the MFA experts for different points of view, I'll have to change that to forget it!,.... since most everyone refuses to add their own comments and views on this painting.
The only thing I can figure myself about this supposed copying artist who happened to have made this copy of a Durer self-portrait, possibly while looking at one of his etchings or even a small painted portrait of him in a book, sure couldn't paint hands realistically. Well,... most likely this work has been known to have been in existence at least back to the 17th century. This is just a for instance, but it is known that Rembrandt's Wife's cousin, an art dealer in Amsterdam, along with being Rembrandt's parterner, Just happened to have been put in jail for a while for selling forge works of art by previous masters.
So,... after saying this, who would have been a good enough artist or better to make this copy of a Durer self-portrait other than a artist such as Rembrandt, an artist that was known not to be very good at painting the hands. He would mostly just paint them obscure or as a blur in most all of his own works of art. Can you see as I do in those mistakes made in copying those hands? The portrait was done so well as to totally capture the experts eye away from these hand. I'm not saying that this portrait is in a Rembrandt style, for when copying to deceive, you must stay withing the artist style your are copying. What better way of increasing ones income, as it has been done throughout the century's by copying the master artists.
Nice! I do like the way the copying artist of this etching figured out in his own mind, if his thumb was bare,.... it had to come from somewhere. Oh $#!t, his right-hand thumb is still hanging around. Anyone care to try and get your own hands in that position while not forgetting to put that big bend in your wrist. I'd guess if the out of place thumb was a rolled up glove from the bare hand sticking up with his thumb coming around it, that would make for a more convincing position of hand the way Durer would have painted them.
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