Many modernists came to realize that their existence was merely the result of happenstance. They considered that they could be merely an amalgamation of earthly particles smaller than anything perceivable only several decades ago. In hopes of finding significance for their identity artists studied themselves through self portraiture.
This gallery will offer a look at how early modernists began to express personal identity before the expanse into a greater societal view. The space will be divided into the two categories of painting and photography mounted cleanly on white walls. The art work will be displayed chronologically within the two timelines of self portraiture in painting and self portraiture in photography. The two categories will be prefaced with text providing historical relevance and general introduction to the work.
Each piece of art will be accompanied by discourse written in the modernist stream of consciousness style based on the technical, conceptual, and historical qualities and context of the artwork. This discourse would exist in the zine pamphlet that will be dispensed near the entrance. This will incorporate a link between the study of one's self in contemporary society as it relates to the artwork of the century past.
Preliminary choices of featured art work:
Pablo Picasso self portrait 1901
Paul Gauguin self portrait 1888
Man Ray self portrait 1942
Walker Evans self portrait 1927
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