What is pervasive? What is elemental? What is contained within demarcations and what runs the gamut of existence? From the first two words of Hamlet to the self portrait and the fruits of or as destruction, to the assertion of the artist as inextricably bound visionary with the talent. Diego Velazquez and the portrait of the self via the portrait of the powerful other. Francis Bacon, the scream, the mouth, the difference between expression and communication. The artist as declarer of what art is, Marcel Duchamp. The critiques of conceptual art, art that does not respond to current events. Invictus, The Desperate Man, a silent scream.
Hamlet
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1524/1524-h/1524-h.htm
Rembrandt Self-Portraits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-portraits_by_Rembrandt
Research Barnett Newman’s views on art and his analysis of Cezanne’s apples:
Painters Painting documentary (De Antonio & Tuchman, 1984, page 43)
Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Innocent_X
Francis Bacon’s Portraits of Innocent X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_after_Vel%C3%A1zquez%27s_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X
Interview with David Sylvester in “Fragments of a Portrait”:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13696820/
Marcel Duchamp
https://www.moma.org/artists/1634-marcel-duchamp
Plato's Symposium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)
Gustave Courbet “The Desperate Man”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9sesp%C3%A9r%C3%A9
“Invictus”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus
Network the film:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/