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Portraits in charcoal by artist Miri Lavee
I draw Portraits mostly with charcoal because it allows me to move
swiftly across the surface, to switch easily from lines to shapes.
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Sometimes I use different sets of lines and shapes at the same drawing,
thus stressing the tension between them.
The portraits that interest me are not necessarily beautiful or young.
It is just the opposite: too perfect face are boring to draw.
I am looking for thefurrows that time has engraved in the face;
the signs of deep emotions which all of us try to hide.
The face is never just an assembly of anatomy. It is the face of a person,
a human being disguised by numerous masks: the social mask (the comic, the lonely person , etc.), the professional mask ( the clerk, the judge, the businessman, etc.); the family mask (father, grandmother, eldest son etc.).
The removal of one mask reveals another.
While drawing, occasionally, at a moment of grace, my eye catches something under the surface.
Suddenly the masks fall away and I get a glimpse of the true person, fragile and vulnerable.
I grasp what is revealed to me and bring it out, intensifying and exaggerating it by the lines and the shapes that create the drawing.
This is a subjective drawing which depicts not only the model – but also its reflection on me.
Description: Portraits: Original charcoal drawings on paper
by artist Miri Lavee.
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