El género del retrato más allá de la captación de la identidad. Representaciones del rostro en la pintura contemporánea: antecedentes y contexto actual
[EN] The portrait genre has been, from its very beginning and up until the end of the XIX century, intrinsically linked to the representation of the human face. Consequently, one of its main aims has been the capture of the represented subject's identity according to their physical and psyc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/62165 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/62165 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Retrato Rostro Identidad Pintura Arte Sujeto Contemporáneo Estrategias HISTORIA DEL ARTE ESCULTURA |
| Sumario: | [EN] The portrait genre has been, from its very beginning and up until the end of the XIX century, intrinsically linked to the representation of the human face. Consequently, one of its main aims has been the capture of the represented subject's identity according to their physical and psychological traits. The redefinition of the characteristics and limits of the portrait genre by the historical avant-garde movement, as well as the critical context following the Second World War, oblige artists to build a new vision of the individual. They mark, too, the beginning of a new process where the identity of the portrayed subjects, which had until then been the inherent characteristic of art work within this genre, starts losing relevance until its disappearance from the practice of contemporary painting. Considering these facts, this research paper sets a question on the expansion of the portrait genre in contemporary paintings beyond the identity of a specific portrayed individual. In order to give an answer to this question, qualitative analytical research has been conducted through the synthesizing and critical interpretation of a series of documents, catalogues, interviews, texts by artists, documentaries, art essays, press articles and pictorial works. This analysis is structured around two essential theoretical chapters: "Precedents" and "Strategies in the pictorial contemporary representation of the human face beyond identity", and around a third visual chapter named "Atlas of the pictorial representation of the human face". The conclusions draw an affirmative answer to our research question: in contemporary times, a field within the portrait genre has been created, where artists work with the pictorial representation of the human face a er the disappearance of the subject's identity. |
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