9.6.08

Masquerade

Somewhere between the Mask and the Face

Mascarade is a collection of images that explores the interplay between the mask and the face in the visual arts. Suggestive as it is, the material is thought-provoking and remains open to interpretation.

Personal research. No lucrative intentions involved. Educational purposes exclusively.


1. Just the two of us


2. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera, etching, 1688 (Le Collezioni d’Arte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna: Le Incisioni, ed. Franca Varignana, Vol. I).


3. Carnival wood mask from Switzerland. Musée de la Masque, Binche


4. Aloisio Giovanolli (1550-1618), Ornamental Head and/or Mascaron Grotesque, Mannerist etching. Ornamentstichsammlung, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin


5. Mariano Akerman, Cristalino, Primer movimiento (Crystalline—First Movement), gouache, 1986. Private collection, Buenos Aires


6. Francis Bacon, Portrait of Michel Leiris, oil, 1976. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris


7. Leonardo da Vinci, Three grotesque profiles, detail from a sheet with seven studies of grotesque faces


8. "What they have in mind," poster, late 1960s


9. Jacques Callot, "Burlesque musician," etching from his Varie figuri gobbi (various hunchbacked figures), 1616-22


10. Still from the film A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, UK 1971).


11. Ibid


12. Still from the film Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon; Georges Mélliès, France 1902).


13. Max Ernst, "Elle ressemblant...", La maison de la peur, collage, 1938


14. Leüthner, Ornamental Design: Mascaron Grotesque, Mannerist-Baroque engraving


15. Adobe Photoshop: Man-Dog


16. Quentin Metsys, A Grotesque Old Woman, oil detail, sixteenth century. National Gallery of Art, London


17. Figure by Max Ernst


18. Cornelis Floris, Ornamental Design: Mascaron Grotesque, Mannerist etching, 1555


19. "Exchange"


20. Mariano Akerman, Reality (Appearance and Evidence), pencil on paper, 1995


21. Luigi Serafini, "Pulcinella" from Pulcinellopedia piccola, pencil, c. 1984. Pulcinellopedia


22. Ibid


23. Untitled composition


24. Johann Heinrich Keller, Knorpelgroteske (Cartilaginous grotesque), etching, 1680


25. Friedrich Unteutsch, Knorpelwork, 1650. Engraving by Abraham Aubry


26. Leüthner, Ornamental Design: Mascaron Grotesque, Mannerist-Baroque etching


27. Christoph Jamnitzer, Grotesque from his Neuw Grotteßken Buch, etching, 1610


28. François Houtin, Arcimboldesque Design, drawing


29. Ornamental Design: Mascarons Grotesque (to be made of shells), French Mannerist engraving


30. Mascaron Grotesque, French Mannerist ornament


31. Cornelis Floris, Ornamental Design: Mascaron Grotesque, 1555. Engraving by Frans Huys



32. Kim Graham, Man Tree ("Jotuntre", Norwegian for King of the Trees), 2007. Recycled materials sculpture, built for the Fremont Solstice Parade, Seattle, June 2007; digital images, after photographs (background modified). "The artist's fingers [have] molded a warm smile, [...] wrinkled hands, and eyes of ageless wisdom," [... namely,] "the spirit of the forest" (McNerthney).


33. L'Ogre degli Orti (Hell-Mouth), Villa Orsini, Bomarzo, 1538-70. Claude Frontisi, Histoire visuelle de l'art, Paris: Larousse, 2002, p. 237: "Tout à la fois étonne, séduit et désoriente"


34. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Son testa, son paese, case e gente (I am Head, I am Country, Houses and People), etching, 1702 (Le Collezioni d’Arte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna: Le Incisioni; Vol. I).


35. Joris Hoefnagel, Grotesque head from Mira calligraphiæ monumenta, c. 1591, fol. 143v. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles


36. Man-Tree, by an unknown photographer


37. Giulio Clovio, detail from a decorative border in the Farnese Hours, c. 1545. Giornale Nuovo


38. CD Cover: Misplaced Ideals, by Paul Young


39. Xul Solar, Pareja (Couple), watercolor detail, 1923. Malba, Buenos Aires


40. Jean Fautrier, Grande tête tragique (Large Tragic Head), bronze. Tate Gallery, London


41. Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, oil, 1972. Gilbert de Botton Collection, Switzerland


42. The Kiss, from a French magazine, 2007


43. Francis Bacon, Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing, oil, 1969. Private collection


44. "Disguise Skill—Try Harder"


45. Mariano Akerman, Mascarade, photograph, 2007
Grand Foyer, Opera Garnier, Paris

Louis-Léopold Boilly, Ah! lithograph, 1824

Online resources
McNerthney, Casey. Creature from Solstice Parade finds a Surprise Following, SeattlePi, 20.06.07
Misteraitch. Faces of the Grotesque, Giornale Nuovo, 10.06.06
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