Thursday September 3. More on obscured faces.

I continue to think about partly seen faces. They are a source of anxiety. I think this is because so much of our brain (about a third) is taken with the visual cortex, and a great part of that is wired for reading faces- moods, reactions, threats etc. I have done more to the very obscure drawing I was doing on Tuesday's blog-

And another pastel study from the photos I took from the TV news channels-

I converted the multiple image of faces to monochrome so that I could do some more studies in charcoal-

Here is today's drawing in stages-

Taken further-

And more. There is more to do with these images.

Last night I googled “ Faceless figures in Art” and found a few things of interest. Firstly this by Coco Davez-

The Israeli artist Gideon Rubin specialises in faceless images from old family photos.

The South Korean artist KwangHo Shin produces really disturbing images-

Then there is the 1920 political image by George Grosz. A comment on faceless politicians.

Masks have been used throughout history, as in the Venice carnival. This by Karrova-

And of course the focal image of “The Phantom of the Opera”

I finish with a nice contemporary joke-