Zhenya Gershman: Dürer’s Enigma: A Kabbalistic Revelation in Melencolia
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Zhenya Gershman is an internationally renowned artist. She was born in Moscow, Russia and held her 1st solo exhibition in St. Petersburg at age 14. She was selected as a subject of the TV documentary film Our Generation, a project dedicated to searching for the five most talented teenagers in Russia, showing hope for the cultural future of the country. The youngest student to be admitted to Otis Art Institute, Zhenya graduated with Honors and later received her Masters of Fine Arts degree from Art Center College of Design. Today, Gershman’s portraits are featured in public and private collections including Douglas Simon and Richard Weisman (she is included in the book Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection). Gershman’s portrait of Sting was acquired for the permanent collection of the Arte Al Limite Museum in Santiago, Chile. Zhenya participates in important international exhibitions including Art Aspen, Art Miami, and Art Chicago. The GRAMMY MusiCares Foundation selected Gershman to create portraits of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Her exhibition "Larger Than Life" was broadcast by Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and featured in The New York Post. A documentary film, The Model’s Artist, highlights Gershman’s innovative approach to working with artists’ models. In 2000, Gershman was a recipient of ALEX Award in Visual Arts from The National Alliance for Excellence, Honored Scholars and Artists Program, presented by Peter Frank, who is quoted as saying that Gershman’s effort evokes not only Whistler’s and Sargent’s, but that from which they took inspiration, Manet’s and Velazquez’s⏤masters of the figure who in their own ways avoided the banal literalities of their contemporaries for a rendition truer to the vagaries of vision, and (thereby) to the dynamics of human presence.
In addition to her artistic career, Gershman is an independent scholar and a museum educator. She has worked for over a decade at the J. Paul Getty Museum and has contributed to such exhibitions as Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits and Rembrandt: Telling the Difference. As a co-Founder and President of Project AWE, a nonprofit foundation for the arts and education, Gershman has dedicated her scholarly and charitable work to provide new dimensions in understanding and experiencing the cultural icons of Western European heritage. Gershman’s groundbreaking discovery regarding the presence of a hidden Rembrandt self-portrait was published by Arion, Boston University and was brought to European audiences by Le Monde. She continues to work in her studio and is currently working on a book Dürer’s Labyrinth: Melencolia in the Context of Early Modern Knowledge following her article Dürer’s Enigma: A Kabbalistic Revelation in Melencolia §I published by Brill’s Aries Journal.
7:18 St.Jerome
8:18 Reuchlin
9:24 Hebrew roots
11:00 St.Jerome's Study
13:02 Hebrew letters
18:55 Connection
19:35 (Mis)interpretation
21:26 Cameleon. Pliny the Elder
23:15 Pico della Mirandola
25:48 Anagram
27:16 Not wings
28:48 L.A.
30:47 Saturn. Dog days
32:19 Pirckheimer. Library
35:45 Angel
41:50 Measures
42:53 Invisible
44:38 Wreath
45:37 Square
46:50 Bell
47:40 Dürer's Solid
49:50 One
What a wonderful presentation! Zhenya rocked it!
Wonderful information, THANK YOU SO MUCH, for this beautiful explanation.🙂
Glad I watched this. Incredibly educational, and a wonderful perspective of Durer's work. I really love this piece.
Wow! Thanks you UPR for posting this. I'll try to make it on Tuesdays. Ms. Zhenya Gershman, thank you for sharing Durer's work. Hat's off to you.
Great lecture! I enjoyed every minute!
Work of Genius! One genius presents another.
48:38 By fiddling with SketchUp, I can see that, unlike the Star Tetrahedron, his shape eliminates the lines crossing in the center of the projected Star. There are lines extending out from the points and there is a border, but no lines inside the Star of David.
Neat trick.
I can't figure out the proportions of the cut lines, but I have the general shape and I know how it was constructed.
XLNT
I see on Wolfram's Alpha page for this solid, he/they claim that Durer starts with a "distorted cube which is first stretched to give rhombic faces with angles of 72°."
LOL
No.
These people do not "distort" solids.
That's unholy.
He started with the tetrahedron and cut the long edges by drawing 36° up from each bottom edge to the top and then down each side. Twice 36 gives you 72 - 1/5 of a circle. Doing this also automatically gives you the 108° on each side - 1/3 of a circle. Both sacred. Then those tips are chopped off.
The top is chopped off to give the 126°. There is no way to avoid this number if you evenly chop off the top of a tetrahedron. But what prolly isn't commonly known is that this angle gives you a cyclic number.
360 / 126 = 2.85714....
"A cyclic number is an integer in which cyclic permutations of the digits are successive multiples of the number. The most widely known is the six-digit number 142857, whose first six integer multiples are
142857 × 1 = 142857
142857 × 2 = 285714
142857 × 3 = 428571
142857 × 4 = 571428
142857 × 5 = 714285
142857 × 6 = 857142"
~Wikipedia
Then you make another one of these chopped tetras and flip it upside down and match the points and you're done.
Pretty sweet...
☕🥐
LOLOLOL
Wolfram's right.
I know why it worked with my first attempt. Because I didn't know the angles, I just divided the side in half to get the long side and that can always be inverted. But the 72° doesn't give a half of the side. It gives more. So they don't match.
Durer cheated! LOLOL
And now his genius is truly exposed.
He would have to "distort" the cube just perfectly in order to get all 3 sacred angles.
So, how did he do that?
I 💗 geometry.
Truly, this is a fun puzzle. I am also interested in thots on the rest of the items in the picture:
The chipped millstone covered with a cloth and a putto sitting on it, writing something.
The 7-runged ladder.
The little thingy next to the dog.
The 4 nails.
The bag hanging on the Angel's belt.
The directions.... Sirius has a low arc - South of the Ecliptic, the shadows seem to be showing the sun to be in the North-West, the vertical sundial seems to be on a North Wall... etc.
The face on the face of the solid.
So many things.
Thank you for your presentation.
Fascinating presentation!
Awsome
gracias, muy interesante
Super Zhenya. Thanks for your work. Thanks.
In a short time, I will be involved in the Project AWE (continuing the work of my godfather John Slifko). And I will...