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Facetime: the Art of the Portrait

“From its mythic beginnings—the tracing of a man’s shadow to preserve his memory during a long absence—to the abstract portrayals of today, portraiture has always tried to capture humanity’s image of itself.”
— Andreas Beyer
In this experience we explore that idea through three very different artists: a gambler who blew his earnings in Monte Carlo, a lover who treated romance like a Las Vegas buffet, and a painter with a suspicious habit of outsourcing his backgrounds to China.
The result is a lively conversation about what it means to see and be seen, while encountering some of the most extraordinary brushwork in the museum.
Also available online for those unable to travel.
John Singer Sargent, Madame X, 1884
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