Mix and Match

culture mix
Originally uploaded by claudia dose.

Chinese New Year meets apple at St. Martins’s place just around from Trafalgar square in London.I had a great time just walking around.

I ended up going to the Portrait Gallery and was overwhelmed by all the royalty on the walls. But what I really liked was the modern portraits especially the one of Jim Dine’s “. . . 55 Portraits, Dine’s magisterial series of etchings, made in 1995. Its subject is the artist’s own face. In the course of making the prints Dine worked from life, subjecting his features to sustained scrutiny. The resulting works are characterised by intense observation and personal exploration, yielding an astonishing variety of expressive invention . . .”
just really felt deep and meaningful. Very personal and at the same time very universal expressions of faces that we all have, at times.