To the artist in need of inspiration, Leonardo recommends: “look at walls splashed with a number of stains or stones of various mixed colours”; the artist who can, in fact, pull new ideas from such inchoate forms proves himself worthy of the name. The motif of change images –as it appears in the work of Leonardo and many others down to the present –generally takes image-making to be a productive, positive, and additive affair. In the wake of Reformation image breaking, however, specifically in certain modes of Dutch landscape painting, where the destructive, negative, and subtractive operations integral to image-making come to the fore, this motif takes an ironic turn. In the context, the erasure and alteration of earlier images emerges as integral to the artistic process- now understood less as the birth of the new than as the (sometimes violent) engagement with what was always, already there.

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图像（非）偶然制作

对于需要灵感的艺术家，列奥纳多建议：“看看墙上溅满了各种混合颜色的污渍或石头”；事实上，能够从这种早期形式中汲取新思想的艺术家证明了自己名副其实。改变图像的主题——正如它在莱昂纳多和许多其他人的作品中出现的那样——通常将图像制作视为一种富有成效的、积极的和附加的事情。然而，在改革图像破坏之后，特别是在荷兰山水画的某些模式中，图像制作不可或缺的破坏性、负面和减法操作脱颖而出，这一主题发生了讽刺性的转变。在上下文中，