A container with two taps": Artists between story and painting

In a well-known self-portrait of the painter and writer Nahum Gutman, Gutman is seen standing facing us, drawing with one hand and writing with the other, and the text in his handwriting, which surrounds the illustration, articulates a poetic, but also emotional principle: "This man (and he is me) occupies himself, apparently, In two jobs, but really he does what his heart wants, he says: one job."  The portrait is in itself a manifest hybrid work, combining illustration and text. In the course we will examine the characteristic of hybridity for its various issues, starting with the interaction of two components that react to each other and create a compound or areas of overlap (Abraham Shalonsky who said of Gutman that he is a tank with two taps, however, Gutman expressed in relation to himself: "I don't see a contradiction between a word and a painting") and a parallel creation, an object separately and a text separately. "For artists who write of the new style," commented Yair Garboz in his words about the match between the visual artist and the auter, "the prose serves as eyes, the words are a tool for observing the world. We will try to understand what the acts of overlapping or artistic parallelism mean, what are their origins and what is its artistic purpose.