5094 KB25 KB200720252015Mikuž, JureŽbona, Mojkaštevilka:1letnik:9str. 86-103ISSN:1854-9632ISSN:2350-4218COBISSID:57333346URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-656IJW7MfrZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakulteteArs et humanitasmitimodern Slovenian paintingmoderno slikarstvomythologymythsPolifemPolyphemusPregelj, Marij, 1913-1967slovensko slikarstvoLa métamorphose du regard de Polypheme dans la peinture de Marij Pregelj (1913-1967)|In 1949-1951 Marij Pregelj, one of the most interesting Slovenian modernist painters, illustrated his version of Homer's Iliad and Odsssey. His illustrations were presented in the time of socialist realist aesthetics announce a reintegration of Slovenian art into the global (Western) context. Among the illustrations is the figure of Cyclops devouring Odysseus' comrades. The image of the one-eyed giant Polyphemus is one which concerned Pregelj all his life: the painter, whose vocation is most dependent on the gaze, can show one eye in profile. And the profiles of others' faces and of his own face interested Pregelj his whole life through. Not only people but also objects were one-eyed: the rosette of a cathedral, which changes into a human figure, a washing machine door, a meat grinder's orifice, a blind "windeye" or window, and so on. The themes of his final two paintings, which he, already more than a year before his boding senseless death at the age of 54, executed but did not complete, are Polyphemus and the Portrait of His Son Vasko. In the first, blood flows from the pricked-out eye towards a stylized camera, in the second, the gaze of the son, an enthusiastic filmmaker, extends to the camera that will displace the father's brushMarij Pregelj, eden najzanimivejših slovenskih slikarjev modernistov, je med leti 1949 in 1951 ilustriral Homerjeva speva Iliado in Odisejo. Njegove ilustracije so v času socrealistične estetike pomenile napoved ponovnega vključevanja slovenske umetnosti v svetovne okvire. Med ilustracijami je tudi postava kiklopa, ki požira Odisejeve tovariše. Podoba velikana z enim očesom je Preglja zaposlovala vse življenje: eno oko lahko slikar, ki je pri svojem poslu najbolj odvisen od pogleda, prikaže v profilu. In profili drugih ter lastnega obraza so Preglja zanimali vse življenje. Enooki niso bili samo ljudje, ampak tudi predmeti: rozeta katedrale, ki se je spremenila v človeško postavo, vrata pralnega stroja, odprtina mlinčka za meso, slepo ok(n)o itd. Motiva zadnjih dveh slik, ki ju je - že več kot leto prej sluteč nesmiselno smrt pri 54 letih - delal tik pred njo, morda celo ne dokončal, sta Polifem in Portret sina Vaska. V prvi kri iz iztaknjenega očesa brizga proti stilizirani filmski kameri, v drugi pa se pogled sina, navdušenega cineasta, podaljšuje v kamero, ki bo spodrinila očetov čopičTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete