{"id":3377,"date":"2013-11-25T10:33:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T09:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2015-08-15T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:44:06","slug":"as-the-enucleated-eye-proves-our-future-is-written-in-the-artworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/25\/as-the-enucleated-eye-proves-our-future-is-written-in-the-artworks\/","title":{"rendered":"As proved by Brauner&#8217;s enucleated eye, our future is written in the artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3377 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/25\/as-the-enucleated-eye-proves-our-future-is-written-in-the-artworks\/brauner-autoritratto\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/brauner-autoritratto.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3384\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3384'>\n\t\t\t\tVictor Brauner, Self-Portrait with a Plucked Eye, 1931, oil on wood, 22 x 16,2 cm., courtesy of Centre Pompidou, Paris.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/25\/as-the-enucleated-eye-proves-our-future-is-written-in-the-artworks\/man-ray-indestructible-objet-1923-1959-metronome-et-collage-de-photographie-222-x-12-x-11-cm-paris-centre-pompidou\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Man-Ray-Indestructible-objet-1923-1959-M\u00e9tronome-et-collage-de-photographie-222-x-12-x-11-cm-Paris-Centre-Pompidou..jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3379\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3379'>\n\t\t\t\tMan Ray, Indestructible objet, 1923-1959, Me\u0301tronome et collage de photographie, 22,2 x 12 x 11 cm, courtesy of Centre Pompidou, Paris.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/25\/as-the-enucleated-eye-proves-our-future-is-written-in-the-artworks\/tumblr_mvut7up0uf1skbghmo1_500\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvut7uP0Uf1skbghmo1_500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was a Romanian surrealist painter. His artistic production is rich in unique hybrid images, hallucinations mixing women, animals and objects out of any logical constraint. A recurring symbol in his works, perhaps his obsession, is that of the enucleated eye. In fact, he often represented subjects whose eyes or a single eye were detached from their orbits. In 1931 he painted the work &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrepompidou.fr\/cpv\/ressource.action?param.id=FR_R-9991018916c0dd35811ec1ecf181ed&amp;param.idSource=FR_O-ba29521c4975b06c9d4782a3fc3b9cc3\" target=\"_blank\">Self-Portrait with eye extract<\/a>&#8220;, in which the artist portrayed himself without his left eye. In 1938, as an involuntary prophecy, due to a fight in a bar, hit by a glass, he lost just his left eye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The artist who painted his misfortune can be compared to a wolf that bites his tail, just as in the Brauner work titled &#8220;Table &#8211; wolf &#8220;. This piece is now exhibited in an extensive show on surrealism (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrepompidou.fr\/cpv\/ressource.action?param.id=FR_R-ca9b33c07e939820adad3a11f6ce9dd&amp;param.idSource=FR_E-1a7ad35ca66db867c9bdda2c107c7dda\" target=\"_blank\">The Surrealist et l&#8217;objet<\/a>&#8220;, open until 3 March at the Centre Poumpidou in Paris. The curious thing is that amongst the more than 200 works (including paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos), there is also a work that sounds like a bad joke against Brauner: a metronome with an eye, titled &#8220;The object indestructible\u201d (by Man Ray).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The show, we can say at this point, lacks only the work of another great exponent of surrealism, Salvador Dal\u00ed, who portrayed himself with his left eye covered by a bandage on which it was painted\u2026 a glass eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was a Romanian surrealist painter. His artistic production is rich in unique hybrid images, hallucinations mixing women, animals and objects out of any logical constraint. 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