Contemplating character portrait drawings and oil sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud Robert Flynn Johnson, Louise Siddons ; with a preface by Martin Muller
ix, 159 pages, 1 unnumbered page color illustrations, portraits (some color) 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition
Date:
2018
19th century
20th century
19e siècle
20e siècle
Notes:
Catalog of a traveling exhibition organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Denenberg Fine Arts Incorporated, in association with Wilstead and Taylor
Contents:
Preface / Martin Muller -- Contemplating character / Robert Flynn Johnson -- Drawn from the life / Louise Siddons -- Catalogue / Robert Flynn Johnson. Self portraits ; Portraits of artists ; Family ; The sitter as subject ; Fame ; Drama and imagination ; Repose and endings -- Afterword
Summary:
Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings and Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud' explores the evolution of portraiture from the end of the 18th century until the present. In contrast to portraiture as the tired flattery of the rich and powerful, the invigorating new movements of Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism that took hold of art at the end of the 18th century and into the 19th century were the result of a desire for a sense of "unvarnished truth," and a more honest and gritty incisiveness of depiction emerged. By the 20th century, the hallmark of the portrait was individuality; the sense of personality was primary, whether stylistically Post-Impressionist, Expressionist, Surrealist, or Realist
