Art as War Testimony and Survival Manual

The portrait is one of the most famous motifs in the history of art, dating back to antiquity. In all modern and contemporary artistic movements, it is an important thematic genre, providing the artist with the opportunity to study the inner life of the portrayed, and above all to depict and endow the individual with subjectivity.

Modernity has reworked portraiture in various new contexts, introducing critical, social and political themes. One form of contemporary portraiture is the collective representation of an entire population through a cross-section of social, ethnic, political and other identities. The people portrayed are no longer subject to stylization to guide the reading of status and other elements indicative of it are included. On the one hand, the contemporary character is often characterized by outside the box compositions, unexpected locations, experimental use of light and raw, simple posing that captivates the viewer. Sometimes this composition and both modernist and classical shots escape the frame.

Kyllä, haluan kuulla lisää Serlachiuksen uusista näyttelyistä, tapahtumista ja tarjouksista. Tilaan uutiskirjeen sähköpostiini ja hyväksyn, että tietoni tallennetaan Serlachius-museoiden asiakasrekisteriin tietosuojaselosteen mukaisesti.