Metapicture

It uses the metalinguistic strategy to reflect on the relationship between narrative in figurative painting and comics. Therefore, it treats the potential of self-reflexive images and their theoretical-critical abilities using the concept of metapicture, coined by W. J. T. Mitchell. The second step looks for examples in art history that prove the importance of self-reflective experiences for the theory of painting. Then, it shows how comics expanded the investigative possibilities of metapicture through humor. Afterwards, some examples from MAD magazine are used to argue that, beyond the self-reflection of a visual language, there is a great critical potential in the projection of one visual language over the other. Finally, the rich experiences in comics that have called academic pictorial language into question are presented

Art · Art history · Comics · Literature · Painting · Visual arts · Comics and Graphic Narratives