A man bending over like a malicious goblin, carrying a canvas on which his improbable shadow is represented: improbable because no light could draw such an unrealistic silhouette. It’s a mythical shadow, one that stems from the historical birth of painting, from the profile of the lover of Dibutades’ daughter.
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