With the advancement of AI technology, certain aspects of our individual being may survive beyond the grave. Will we live forever, in other words, just as some artists already do?
How the past, present and future lives in these artists work Allegory of Prudence by Titien, circa 1550-1565, 76 x 69 cm Image Credit: Kurator
Painting, an object ontologically fixed in the present, is surprisingly haunted by the issue of time: it is the irremediably passing nature of the moment which gives it its duration. With seriousness, the old Titien represents himself as a man of the past in the Allegory of Prudence: a triple portrait of humans and animals explained by the terms: “From the experience of the past, the present acts prudently, lest it spoil future actions”. The old man is associated with the past and the wolf who devours memory. The future is represented by youth and a dog, loyal to what has been. In the centre is the present, a man rather concerned, illustrated in action by the lion. Despite the iconography which speaks volumes, we perhaps retain more the painting of Titien at the end of his life: on a green oil base, his brush m
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