![]() ![]() Albert and the Whale explores the work of this remarkable man through a personal lens. But his art captured more than the physical world, he also captured states of mind. He painted signs and wonders comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern images. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. Dürer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. Thrown into crisis, in the shape of the whale, he saw his final ambition. ![]() The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel in Dürer's art, they were part of a connected world. In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. ![]()
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