丢勒 | 亚当和夏娃 1504

82nd & Fifth- 'Exposure' by Freyda Spira 1504 中文翻译：王夕至 译文校对：Adayikkes 翻译仅供参考 | 视频不得商用

英文稿：

When you first see this print you immediately recognize it as Adam and Eve.

They’re set within a sort of Eden, although instead of a garden, Albrecht Dürer made

it a thick forest set out against cliffs, sort of an alpine landscape.

Dürer was a very conscientious artist, and he was one of the

first to really study nature: the details of the human body,

of trees,

of animals. Eve

is reaching for the Tree of Knowledge,

which is a fig tree, actually, which the snake is

wound around. You get caught up in all of the details:

the ibex teetering on the top of the cliff,

the parrot,

the ox

and the cat and the mouse

and the rabbit. And as you follow

Adam’s arm clutching onto

an ash tree, you see that there’s a large plaque in Latin, which means,

“Albrecht Dürer from Nuremberg made this in 1504.” And you begin to

understand that Dürer’s not really telling you the story of Adam and Eve, but

this is an advertisement that Dürer has created to show off his skills as an artist.

When we come into the Museum we see it in a beautiful mat,

but when you see it outside of the frame,

you begin to understand what it was originally, which was

a commodity. Dürer employed

merchants to sell this far and wide across Europe, and it made

its way even to India. Unlike a painting, it wasn’t a static thing,

it moved in society. And Dürer really wanted to

announce to people across cultures and boundaries that he

was a German artist of the Renaissance and this is what

he could do. I once tried to make an engraving and I couldn’t even make one line.

It takes an incredible amount of strength and skill.

There are thousands and thousands of lines that go into

these dark areas. He spent

four years working on this print, four years trying to work out

how each segment of the body was

portioned out in exact mathematic

formula. He makes Adam

this strapping figure based on the Apollo Belvedere,

part of a Renaissance vocabulary.

Eve is more of a medieval ideal of women who have childbearing hips

and small breasts, and this is his tradition that

he’s still working out.

Prints interest me because they circulate in society.

This was the first print I had seen in the flesh, and for me

it was an aha moment that art works through time. I can look at this and

Albrecht Dürer through the centuries is speaking to me and telling

me how to read his own image.

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