A New Interpretation about the Tragedy of the Face Swapping Between Human and Portrait in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's artistic treatment of portraits and plot settings in The Picture of Dorian Gray is more sophisticated and mature.He rehearses a tragedy of the face swapping between human and portrait with portraits as the core and sets three puzzles related to portraits,which shows that Wilde has recognized the unique significance of portraits and the special category in the history of Western paintings.At the same time,the portraits have become the common medium to the interpretation of his works and the key to express his concepts of aestheticism.Portraits are used to the centerpiece which connected issues about morality,body,and the self in The Picture of Dorian Gray.The similarity and relative independence of portraits to models make the plot of the novel's face-swapping possible,and the essence of face-swapping is the replacement of the subject's face,the loss of the senses,the absence of the body,and the consequent loss of vitality and possibilities.Meanwhile,Dorian's assassination of the portrait is fundamentally rooted in the collapse of an already shaky cognitive foundation and value construction.
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