The Origin of the Image

Enough and more than enough has been said about painting. It may be suitable to append to these remarks something about the plastic art. It was through the service of […]

Enough and more than enough has been said about painting. It may be suitable to append
to these remarks something about the plastic art. It was through the service of that same
earth that modeling portraits from clay was first invented by Butades, a potter from Sycion,
at Corinth. He did this owing to his daughter, who was in love with a young man; and
she, when he was going abroad, drew in outline on the wall the shadow of his face thrown
by the lamp. Her father pressed clay on this and made a relief, which he hardened by
exposure to fire with the rest of his pottery; and it is said that this likeness was preserved
in the shrine of the Nymphs.
– Pliny de Oudere (Naturalis Historia, Boek XXXV, hoofdstuk 15)

Optica

Optica

Eclips

Eclips

Rene Margritte - Not to Be Reproduced

Rene Margritte – Not to Be Reproduced

Henry Fox Talbot - Fotogram

Henry Fox Talbot – Fotogram

Grot in Chauvet, handen met pigment er om heen geblazen

Grot in Chauvet, handen met pigment er om heen geblazen

Jan Saenredam - Plato's Grot

Jan Saenredam – Plato’s Grot

 Jean-Baptiste Regnault - The Origin of Painting

Jean-Baptiste Regnault – The Origin of Painting

Karl Friedrich Schinkel - Origin of Painting

Karl Friedrich Schinkel – Origin of Painting

Joseph Benoit Suvee - The Origin of Drawing

Joseph Benoit Suvee – The Origin of Drawing (uitsnede)

Etienne de Silhouette

Etienne de Silhouette

Kara Walker

Kara Walker

Daan van Golden - Mozart - 30x40cm Olieverf en potlood op canvas

Daan van Golden – Mozart – 30x40cm Olieverf en potlood op canvas

Henry Bursill

Henry Bursill

Henry Bursill

Henry Bursill

Henry Bursill

Henry Bursill

Wayang Purwa

Wayang Purwa

Nosferatu

Nosferatu

Charles Henry Bennett

Charles Henry Bennett

Charles Henry Bennett

Charles Henry Bennett

Charles Henry Bennett

Charles Henry Bennett

Henri Matisse - La perruche et la sirene

Henri Matisse – La perruche et la sirene

Micheline Szwajcer Galerie - Daan van Golden

Daan van Golden – Study HM

Daan van Golden - Study HM - Olieverf op doek 2003

Daan van Golden – Study HM

Max Ernst - Jenseits der Malerei

Max Ernst – Jenseits der Malerei

Samuel Van Hoogstraten - De Schaduw Dans

Samuel Van Hoogstraten – De Schaduw Dans

Camera Obscura

Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Durer

Marcel Duchamp - Het Grote Glas

Marcel Duchamp – Het Grote Glas

Marcel Broodthaers - Signature

Marcel Broodthaers – Signature

Marcel Broodthaers - Une Seconde de l'Eternite - 16mm filmloop

Marcel Broodthaers – Une Seconde de l’Eternite

Joëlle Tuerlinckx - Un Ensemble Autour de MUR

Joëlle Tuerlinckx – Un Ensemble Autour de MUR

Henry Fox Talbot - Eerste fotonegatief

Henry Fox Talbot – Eerste fotonegatief

Kazimir Malevich - Suprematisch zwart vlak

Kazimir Malevich – Suprematisch zwart vlak

Ad Reinhardt - Abstract Painting no 5

Ad Reinhardt – Abstract Painting no 5

Alberto Giacometti - Invisible Object

Alberto Giacometti – Invisible Object