About Face: Portraits from the Berman Museum Collection
About Face: Portraits from the Berman Museum
Collection includes numerous examples of portraiture from a small
Renaissance painting to contemporary photography. Revealing the Berman Museum鈥檚
rich collection of art鈥檚 oldest and most significant genre, About Face
brings together more than 50 artworks of little known, or even anonymous
artists, alongside well-known artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
There is, nonetheless, more to the exhibition than the mere connection of the
human visage; the draw is our unwavering fascination with staring at the image
of another person. Whether of a famous person or not, a portrait of virtually
anyone is endlessly fascinating.
Before the invention of photography in the mid-19th century, a
portrait, typically a painting, was not only rare, it was a luxury to virtually
everyone except the wealthy. Today, as we know all too well, portraits are
ubiquitous, made by the billions each year on smart phones and posted on the
Internet for the world to see. This recent democratization of portraiture will
only amplify the importance of the Berman鈥檚 historical presentation of
portraits, an introduction so to speak, for portraiture鈥檚 next iteration.
Because of our collective and continued interest in how we perceive ourselves and others, the continuum of portraiture will endure for centuries to come. New histories of portraiture will undeniably be written by future generations. With the foreseeable changes in technology that lie ahead, those future representations of the human face will be as endlessly varied, and captivating, as the portraits from the Berman鈥檚 collection in About Face.
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About Face: Portraits from the Berman Museum
Collection includes numerous examples of portraiture from a small
Renaissance painting to contemporary photography. Revealing the Berman Museum鈥檚
rich collection of art鈥檚 oldest and most significant genre, About Face
brings together more than 50 artworks of little known, or even anonymous
artists, alongside well-known artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
There is, nonetheless, more to the exhibition than the mere connection of the
human visage; the draw is our unwavering fascination with staring at the image
of another person. Whether of a famous person or not, a portrait of virtually
anyone is endlessly fascinating.
Before the invention of photography in the mid-19th century, a
portrait, typically a painting, was not only rare, it was a luxury to virtually
everyone except the wealthy. Today, as we know all too well, portraits are
ubiquitous, made by the billions each year on smart phones and posted on the
Internet for the world to see. This recent democratization of portraiture will
only amplify the importance of the Berman鈥檚 historical presentation of
portraits, an introduction so to speak, for portraiture鈥檚 next iteration.
Because of our collective and continued interest in how we perceive ourselves and others, the continuum of portraiture will endure for centuries to come. New histories of portraiture will undeniably be written by future generations. With the foreseeable changes in technology that lie ahead, those future representations of the human face will be as endlessly varied, and captivating, as the portraits from the Berman鈥檚 collection in About Face.
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