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Journal of Albrecht Durer, 1498
I, Albrecht Durer, will preserve what I feel today in indelible colors. I stand pompous, extravagantly dressed, back to where I have always belonged. I may seem ostentatious now, with the artistic splendor I am bestowed with, more refined. Yet it was at Venice where I found inner tranquility of being an artist. I shall paint now as my imaginations will sweep with the aura of nature around me and my skills shall gain more strength. I will rejoice today to celebrate the liberty of an artist that I had experienced in Italian culture with the hope to awaken same liberation amongst natives of my land. I shall portray myself to depict the worth of a piece of art, the spectacle that a mere smear of color on canvas could create.
I may seem imprudent to Nuremberg for here I stand now almost 26, still lost in youthful abandon. Yet, I feel the looming prospect of gaining all or losing what I have today. I shall leave behind flamboyant self and will accept what is to come in the future. The responsibilities that lay on my shoulders seem more pronounced now for I shall have to act as an instigator to art amongst my people. Shall I be able to bring the enough aesthetic sense required by my work or my art shall go unnoticed? My artwork will perhaps reach the autonomous form like that of Martin Schongauer, for I intend to bring in Italian splendor to my innate compassion towards art (Wisse, October 2002).
This self-portraiture shall remind me what a connoisseur I have to become with colors and canvas alone. I may appear careless, yet a part in me had also been sentient to initiate the Renaissance of art and culture in Nuremberg, the grandeur of which I have witnessed in Italy.
I shall use wood panel to provide a suitable canvas to my portraiture. Oil paints with the extravagant use of shades and strokes to provide a proper composite that is required by the work shall be my choice....
I shall use colors and miniature strokes to provide details that shall be eclipsed by my frontal presence. A window thrust wide open with a flat plane shall act as a focal to draw attention towards Inntal Valley. The grandeur presented by snowcapped Simmering Mountains shall be preserved forever with the portrait.
The pellet shall be colorful and choice of color shall be careful, depicting the nature's call for highlighting each contour and facial expression of the artist within me. The attire will present pictorial sense for the amateurs, who shall see my work while a collector shall witness the proportion and geometric perfection of the human form sketched on the paper (Ashcroft, 2012).
The work shall portray light and color infused to take an indelible form, which shall show the power of Venetian art that I had managed to learn in last two years (1494-1495) in Italy. The arrogant posture shall remind the natives of my work as an artist. They shall learn to see the artist with the same importance as any theologian or a scholar as every artwork is a masterpiece in its own confinements.
I shall dress me in fine silk shirt with refined gold embroidery. A cloak shall be wrapped up on my arm with careful choice for hand posture. Nuremberg silk gloves shall be there to cover the hands themselves which shall provide a royalty needed by an artist in his work. The golden lock of curls for hair and unusual, tasseled black and white draped hat on head shall provide the haughty profile needed to make the portrait standout. Since window would be left open, so the silken olive skin shall be highlighted by traces of light falling on each facial expression. The self- portraiture shall show youth and artistic intellect under one frame.
As the fifteenth century draws to an end, I fear that my German estate would lag behind other nations. I now approach a sovereign identity to what I am and what I…
References
Ashcroft, J. (2012). Art in German: Artistic Statements by Albrecht DUrer. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 48(4), 376-388.
Bartrum, G. (2002). Albrecht Durer and his Legacy: the Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist. London.
Koerner, J.L. (1993). The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art. United States of America: The University of Chicago Press.
Wisse, J. (October 2002). "Albrecht Durer (1471 -- 1528)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/durr/hd_durr.htm
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