The Escape

From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions

By: David Schutter, Barry Schwabsky (Memoir by), Dieter Roelstraete (Memoir by)

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Hardcover | 5 October 2021 | Edition Number 1

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Charles Le Brunâs drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutterâs work, Le Brunâs manual is set to a different directionâ"a series of abstract drawings recalling vestiges of the human face animated by emotion. But Schutterâs drawings are neither copies nor portraiture. Rather, they are reflections on how Lebrunâs renderings were made.

Collected here, Schutterâs work recreates not the subject matter but the very values of Lebrunâs drawingsâ"light, gesture, scale, and handling of materials. The cross-hatching in the original was used to make classical tone and volume, in Schutterâs hand the technique makes for unstable impressions of strained neck and deeply furrowed brow, or for drawing marks and scribbles unto themselves. As such, these drawings end up denying a neat closureâ"unlike their academic source materialâ"and render unsettling states of mind that require repeated viewing. Accompanied by essays from art critic Barry Schwabsky and Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete, The Escape will appeal to students, critics, and admirers of seventeenth-century, modern, and contemporary art alike.

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