PORTRAITS 1971–1972
My portraits of 1971–1972 taught me that faces are asymmetrical. This came as a surprise. Could whole bodies be asymmetrical? I had not only been drawing from the nude since the age of 16, when I took a course in Life Drawing at the Art Students League, I also had been teaching drawing from the nude every semester for twenty-two years; nevertheless I had never noticed that the right and left sides of faces and bodies did not perfectly mirror each other. Nor had I encountered it in any instructional or historical text relating to figurative art.
To me, this asymmetry was a perfect metaphor for the condition of being human and alive.
Note: titles of artworks include numbers for reference and does not necessarily imply their order of creation.
Portraits 1971–1972 01
Portraits 1971–1972 02
Portraits 1971–1972 03
Portraits 1971–1972 04
Portraits 1971–1972 05
Portraits 1971–1972 06
Portraits 1971–1972 07
Portraits 1971–1972 08
Portraits 1971–1972 09
Portraits 1971–1972 10
Portraits 1971–1972 11
Portraits 1971–1972 12
Portraits 1971–1972 13
