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Jiang labels close attention to parts of the painting as world-building: the viewer moves from the whole toward each component in order to animate the depicted reality.
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Painting
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "You start looking at the colors and you see the picture as a whole, but you also start focusing on the details."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "You start looking at the colors and you see the picture as a whole, but you also start focusing on the details."
Key Notes
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Jiang accepts the student's account of art-viewing as an oscillation among viewer, artist, subject, and object, calling it a dialogue or simulation that tries to bring self and painting together.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that the Divine Comedy is the basis of the Renaissance because its lines keep germinating into paintings, images, and further acts of imagination.
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"You start looking at the colors and you see the picture as a whole, but you also start focusing on the details."
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"Yes, okay, right, okay. So you're trying to focus on the details. Details focus. Yes. And why would you do that?"
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"Because you already see the whole picture so you want to see what each part of the picture is like."
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"Okay, right, so you're basically trying to world -build, okay? World -build. Okay, anyone else? Yes?"
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"...myself, a kind of disassociation in order to assimilate within the painting, trying to forget yourself, trying to forget yourself, and it's like how..."
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"Okay, that's a really interesting comment, okay? But I want you to break it down for us and try to literally explain what's going..."
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"...back and forth between who am I and what is the painting and trying to bring them together."
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"Right, okay, so it's a dialogue, right? A dialogue assimilation, okay, yeah. Simulation, right? Would it be fair to say that when you do..."
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"And then what would you do? You memorized it, do you understand? Okay? So, remember how... before we said that Divine Comedy is meant..."
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"just look at any Renaissance painting, you can trace it back to a line or a tercet in Divine Comedy, right? And what's happened..."
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