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The article analyses painter, graphic artist and stage designer Ilmārs Blumbergs’ (1943–2016) artworks in which he thematises the body as his intimate space subject to finality and death. Besides existential and intellectual issues, Blumbergs has always been interested in human physical existence in art. Searches for the meaning of the body and bodily states are an important theme in Blumbergs’ art...
This article addresses the issue of intersemiotic translation of a painting, taking as the basis the functioning of Arnold Böcklin’s work The Isle of the Dead in European culture. The theoretical part of the article relates to the basic components of the theory of intersemiotic translation; in particular, it notes the importance of the difference between the closed system of signs and the possibility...
The article results from introductory research into the question of broadly defined pictorialness of film images in Jean-Luc Godard’s works. Strategies of the image inscribed by the director in his own films may be interpreted as a type of adaptations of paintings. Recollection of the most exemplary adaptations of paintings in the trilogy: Passion (1982), First Name: Carmen (1983) and Hail Mary (1984),...
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