Resumen de "Malerei ohne Pockenspuren". Oberfläche im Werk von Jean-Etienne Liotard
The writer discusses surfaces in the work of 18th-century painter Jean Étienne Liotard. For Liotard, the ideal picture surface was closed, thin, flat, and flawless. This applied to both the level of painting technique and to the figurative level, the surfaces of the things depicted in the picture. All signs of touch, on the surface of the picture and on its motifs, were largely to be avoided. The writer goes on to examine a 1757 portrait by Liotard, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, which directly addresses Liotard's concept of a picture.
