“In an êj ẃr ɖ slfportrit hz arğbli bcm wn v ɖ most popylr viźl źãṛz, nt līst ʈru ɖ rîz v ɖ slfi, ɖs xbiśn sīcs t inrić âr undstandñ v its pârfl funẋn in śêpñ îdiyz v ɖ slf n îdentti”
Lucian Freud: Reflection (Self-Portrait), 1985. Oil on canvas, 22 x 19 7/8 in. (56 x 50.7cm.)
(Posted 27 January 2015. The text is in an older version of Ñspel.)
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“Pītr Pwl Rūbnz hz bn dscrîbd az ɖ prins v pêntrz. A bold clem? Juj fr yrslf at ɖs, ɖ frst mêjr ovrvy v hiz wrc n leġsi.
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‘The Garden of Love’ (c. 1633), by Peter Paul Rubens
Rūbnz n Hiz Leġsi brñz tgɖr mastrpìsz pṛdyst jrñ hiz lîftîm, az wel az mêjr wrcs bî grt ātists hu wr inflụnst bî hm in ɖ jeṇrešnz ɖt folod. W si ɖ inflụns v Rūbnz in ɖ prints v Picaso n Rembrant, in ɖ pwtričr v Van Dîc, in ɖ huntñsìnz n dvošnl wrcs v Deḷqā, n in ɖ landsceps v Cunsṭbl n Gênzbra. It z a far-rīčñ n rmāc̣bl leġsi.
Rūbnz, bst nôn fr hiz fleši nyd wimin, olso imbrest a brwd are v subjcts, fṛm rlijs n myʈ̇lojcl sìnz t landsceps n pwtrits. W lc at č v ɖz erı̣z ʈru ɖ lenz v six ʈīmz; pâr, lust, cmpašn, eḷgns, powtri n vayḷns.
Set t b wn v ɖ bgist specṭclz v 2015, ɖs z an unpreṣdntd oṗtyṇti t si mastrpìsz bî Rūbnz sîd bî sîd wɖ ɖ wrc v hiz ātistc érz.
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La Peregrina
Cntemprri wrcs t jýn Rūbnz n Hiz Leġsi
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Az pāt v ɖs landmāc xibišn, seḷbretd ātist n Royl Acaḍmišn Jeni Savil hz kretd La Peregrina, a prsnl n cntmprri rspons t Rūbnz n Hiz Leġsi.
Fr La Peregrina, Savil hz čozn a ṣlẋn v wrcs bî mêjr 20ʈ n 21st senčri ātists. Az wel az pêntñz bî Wiḷm d’Cūnñ, Pablo Picaso, Fransis Bêcn, Sẹra Lūc̣s, Lūšn Frýd n uɖrz, y cn si xtrōdnri ny wrc crietd bî Savil ispešli fr ɖs ocežn.
Jeni Savil z bst nôn fr hr lj-scêl ýlpêntñz v fīmel figrz. Wɖ hr dīp fasinešn in ɖ palṗbiḷti v fleš, xtreṃtiz v anaṭmi n ɖ gṛtesc, Savil’z ātwrc invocs ɖ inflụns v Rūbnz. Ɖ renj v wrcs š hz brwt tgɖr rflct bʈ hr prsnl rspons n dīp undrstandñ v wn v ɖ grt mastrz v āthistri.
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Ẇɖr y ʈnc y lîc Rūbnz or nt, hiz inflụns runz ʈru ɖ paʈwez v pêntñ. Lîc Wōhol, h čenjd ɖ gem v āt. Jeni Savil RA”
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Edwin Landseer: The Hunting of Chevy Chace, 1825-6
Peter Paul Rubens: Tiger, Lion and Leopard Hunt, 1616
Eugène Delacroix: Lion Hunt, 1858
Peter Paul Rubens: Pan and Syrinx, 1617
François Boucher: Pan and Syrinx, 1759
Attributed to Anthony van Dyck: Drunken Silenus Supported by Satyrs, c. 1620
Peter Paul Rubens: Evening Landscape with Timber Wagon, 1630–40
Peter Paul Rubens: The Triumph of Henri IV, 1630
Eugène Delacroix: : The Triumph of Apollo (Apollo Vanquishing the Serpent Python), c. 1853
