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In the Oxford portraits example, Jiang accepts the idea that paintings can transmit the lingering memory or soul-presence of earlier lives, creating awe and resonance across generations.
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Portraits
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I like looking at portraits of people, so at Oxford, all our dining halls will have like all the famous alumni hanging or like..."
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"I like looking at portraits of people, so at Oxford, all our dining halls will have like all the famous alumni hanging or like..."
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"...a connection, you're at Oxford, and all these great people, these portraits are all around you, and it looks, it seems as though they're..."
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"Because the pictures were positioned so high up on the ceilings, and then literally they're like looking down on you while you look up..."
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"Okay. Right, okay, so like awe and wonder, resonance, sure. Resonance. Okay. Um, so Benjamin Franklin, oh sorry, not Benjamin Franklin, Walter Benjamin, would..."
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"...strong unity of action and it's welded together with character, a portrait of character that is really brought out by the nature of the..."
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"...himself into the way that he is haunted and it's a portrait of him that the that the um that the nature of that..."
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"...and the medieval paintings were just like bishops and like just portraits but this is like really yeah this really ignites the imagination like..."
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"Verse 91. And if, by means of human flesh or portraits, nature or art has fashioned lures to draw the eye so as to..."
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"...happens is they're losing their minds. And this is a self -portrait of an artist who documented himself losing his mind. So, when he..."
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"...Woman. Okay. Now, what you will notice is it's a cubist portrait of a woman, but if you look further, it's actually two people..."
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"...painter from this period, okay, Rembrandt. This is probably the prototypical portrait of a wealthy person in the Dutch Republic, okay? She's wealthy, but..."
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"...is that Raphael, this is Raphael actually. This is a self -portrait of Raphael. He will actually engage in the conversation. He will listen..."
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