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Castiglione to Warhol, The Art of Making Faces


Apr 15 2016
Thru
Apr 22 2016
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center

Castiglione to Warhol, The Art of Making Faces will be on view from January 15 to April 22, 2016, in the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums. Drawn from the University Museums’ collections of drawings, prints, photographs, and paintings, the more than fifty works in this exhibition explore how artists create faces to provide recognition of known subjects, to study the personality of the person being portrayed, and to convey the range of human emotions. From the seventeenth century to the present, the subjects range from unknown sitters, to portraits of celebrities, to imagined figures created by the artists. The exhibition begins with the complete 1645-1650 series of sixteen prints, “Studies of Small Heads in Oriental Headdress,” by Giovanni Castiglione (Italian, 1609-1664) and ends with a selection of screenprints and Polaroid prints from the 1970s and 1980s by Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987).

Images of the exhibition
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