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One of the fans of the Half Hour Hegel series, (who goes by what I'm guessing are pseudonyms) Milliardo Peacecraft and Budimen Budimen, created this interesting triptych, taking Hegel's iconic portrait as a starting point.
It might well be titled "Hegel and Melancholia," and read visually and expressively from right to left. We start with a recognizable representation of the great German philosopher, but with almost a hint of a smile, and eyes a bit softer and forgiving than those in his usual depictions. Then, we shift to a blued, Jekyll-Hyde-suggestive distortion, still recognizably the iconic work, but dour or even soured in expression. In the third, an externalization has taken place, a hazy net providing the latticework through which Hegel gazes out at the world, and at the viewer.
It's a suggestive piece of work, which I'm quite grateful to have been provided with. I'm by no means a good guy for commenting upon artwork -- so I'd welcome any comments by those who want to contribute a bit more by way of discussion or analysis.
Dear dr. Sadler
ReplyDeleteI am contacting you on behalf of Agora, a leading Norwegian philosophy journal published (in print and electronic version) by H. Aschehoug & Co, www.agorajournal.no.
We are now planning av special issue on G.W.F. Hegel, featuring eleven new articles written by Norwegian and international scholars, among them Slavoj Zizek and Frank Ruda.
We really love the triptych presented above by the pseudonyms Peacecraft and Budimen, and would very much like to use it as a cover-illustration for this particular issue of Agora.
I would like to kindly ask whether you happen to have any information about where to reach the artists holding the copyright for this image? We will of course pay a standard fee for a high-resolution image.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Geir O. Rønning
(co-editor, Agora)