Pause

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Pauson ( ancient Greek Παύσων ) was an ancient Greek painter who probably came from Athens and who worked in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC. Worked.

Pauson was a painter who was maligned and not well respected at an early age, whose pictures, which were probably ironic, aroused irritation and rejection among his contemporaries. Regardless, he must have been a very productive spirit who left a large body of work behind.

Aristophanes called him a villainous painter ( Παύσων ὁ παμπόνηρος ), a "table companion of poverty" who celebrated the orgiastic festival of Dionysia by fasting. The equation of the pause in Aristophanes with the painter is only established by the scholias , which, because of the large time intervals, can never be evidence of such equations. The other remarks about the painter Pauson, which go in the same disparaging direction, suggest the identification. For Aristotle , Pauson was a painter who, unlike the older Polygnot, had no ethos and who lagged behind reality in his works. Young people must be protected from seeing his pictures in order to keep their imagination pure and untroubled by the ugliness.

Pauson must have been a painter who went his own way, looking at his work and life in a humorous way and provoking it, but at the same time developed a lasting effect that forced an examination of him. According to a widely received anecdote, he painted a running horse wrapped in dust for a client when he was supposed to be making a painting of a rolling horse. When confronted, he turned the picture around, which now appeared as desired: horse on its back, rolling in the dust.

Pauson was not a Socrates , but a child of his irony time, which was not least the breeding ground for the old comedy , of which he himself became a mockery. How great the rejection of his art was may be made clear by the judgment of Themistius , who wrote in the late 4th century AD that all of Pauson's works, taken together, were not worth a single tablet of des Zeuxis or des Apelles .

Since contemporaries were primarily mocked in comedy, the known years of comedy performances result in a creative period for Pauson at least in the years 425 to 408 BC. BC, the time of the Peloponnesian War .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Aristophanes, Die Acharner 854.
  2. ↑ Aristophanes, The Wealth, 602; According to a Scholion documented only in late antiquity, Pauson means the painter.
  3. ↑ Aristophanes, Die Thesmophoriazusen 949.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Ehrhardt: Pauson. In: Künstlerlexikon der Antike , Volume 2, Munich, Leipzig 2004, p. 200.
  5. ^ Aristotle, de arte poetica 2.
  6. ↑ Aristotle, Politeia 8, 5, 7.
  7. ↑ Lukian , Demosthenis encomium 24; Aelian , varia historia 14, 15; Plutarch , de Pythiae oraculis 396.
  8. ↑ Themistios, orationes 34, 2, 41.

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SURNAME Pause
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Παύσων (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Greek painter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.