Self-Portrait

05.11.2009 – 24.01.2010
The exhibition has been envisaged as a dedication to representatives of the creative professions, artists, sculptors and graphic artists as seen by their colleagues, as a look at themselves.

It brings together artists from various ages; they meet to introduce the diversity of their styles, the spiritual saturation of the image, their experiences, and their expressively adventurous or calmly observing view of the world.

For centuries European art was dominated by the commissioned portrait representing rulers, aristocracy and beautiful society ladies. Artist and client are rarely friends and, speaking different languages, it is difficult to reach a consensus. Misunderstandings between author and model became an important factor in taking the path of least resistance by creating portraits of other artists. Already in the 1930s, Boris Vipper wrote: “The artist of today above all strives for his painting to have some sort of uncontrived relationship with the surrounding nature and the world of the senses. If we are to believe the artist of today then he does not paint a portrait of a face but he synthesises his understanding of the world and the living.” The fundamental simplification of forms allowed the movements of Modernism to become sharply distanced from the realistic depiction of the face....http://www.vmm.lv/en/arsenals/expoz/

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