Faculty of Art
Sculpture/Installation
Tamar Bresge
Patron Saint of Myself (Portrait of the Artist After Fra FIlippo Lippi)
Painting
2018
Performance for portrait, oil on linen
One sitting (8 hours) / 54.3 cm x 65.5 cm x 32.2 cm
Nine of the ten performances for my portraits worked from live sittings in Florence, between August 2018 and April 2019. Before each sitting, I would visit the Uffizi, to draw inspiration in tone and expression from a classically-charged painting. The praying palms of Lippi's Madonna served as a focus for serenity of the self, by bringing my palms to my own face. October 11, 2018Florence, Italy.