“PORTRAIT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY” Exhibition
Postmasters Gallery
[Image: Kristin Lucas "Breakout", 2006, duraratran photograph, lightbox 36 x 36 x 5 in.]
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A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
John Singer Sargent
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form… one inevitably ends up with an egg.
Pablo Picasso
- to a sitter’s complaint that his portrait was not a great work of art: Perhaps not, but then you can’t call yourself a great work of nature.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Otto Dix
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put the camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn’t pose. He isn’t aware of the camera.
Patrick Demarchelier
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Edward Munch
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali
It’s really absurd to make… a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it… But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
Willem de Kooning
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art.
Lucian Freud
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls… if I hadn’t been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
Alice Neel
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter… one must paint its atmosphere.
Umberto Boccioni
When I painted his portrait and offered it to him, he glanced at the canvas, then, looking at himself in the mirror, thought a moment and said: Well, no! Keep it!
Marc Chagall
Postmasters will present a show of portraits, real and imagined, that reflect our moment in time, the currently available technologies and the growing popular fascination with portraiture over social media platforms.
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Schedule
from November 29, 2014 to January 17, 2015
Opening Reception on 2014-11-29 from 17:30 to 20:00