Faces, The drawn, painted, photographed portrait

This is a quick and particular idea where students have been asked to address the portrait structurally and evocatively. The attempt here is to answer what that may mean through visuals which I see as both solid mass, ... beautiful, engaged form, and also, the human hand with its tactility, lushness, and profound experience.

Van Eyck:

Kathe Kollwitz:

These images appear as both material and flesh, surface handling combined with the human spirit. They are not necessarily all drawn and although some may seem like old friends, others are not well known. They each invite interpretation.
Here are a few, I'll aim to bring you more over the next couple of days.

Giacometti:

Alison Lambert:

Verrocchio:

Bronzino:

They are rich, complex drawings at the exact moment they amount to and surpass observed representations of space through the means of the portrait. They are both externally and internally driven and extend the viewer's experience.

Sophie Jodoin:

Gerard Richter:

Jon de Martin:

Ginny Grayson:

From the most delicate, lacy of strokes to the hammered and slashed, the driven and poked, these faces call to the viewer:

Gerard Richter:

Jenny Saville:

Rembrandt:

Hyman Bloom:

They desire your response, ask you to see, and share their journey. Making exists to be communicated, to connect, to draw the outsider in.