Portraits de l'artiste en singe. Les Singeries dans la peinture. Copte without really knowing why

without really knowing why

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Portraits de l'artiste en singe. Les Singeries dans la peinture. Copte without really knowing whyIn the usual bestiary of Western painters, the monkey occupies a special place independent of animal art and naturalist study. As a pantomime of human behavior, the animal represents a long iconographic tradition laden with metaphorical meanings. The monkey is the failed image of man, his caricature. By his indecent resemblance, by his attitudes, his gestures, his grimaces and especially his gift of imitation, the animal is naturally comical. The