 The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa, organized for the Ottawa Art Gallery by Karen Love, gathers together over 200 Ottawa portraits by 78 image-makers, presented thematically in order to provoke a range of questions about how we understand the idea of a portrait.
Also see the linked portfolio
Artists have portrayed themselves and their fellows since the beginnings of human representation. The advent of the camera in the nineteenth century augmented portraiture’s accessibility with enormous rapidity and variation, both for those who wished to be portrayed and for those who were impelled to depict.  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Voir aussi l'article reliéEvergon livre ici au spectateur, avec simplicité et respect, le corps nu de sa mère âgée. Preuve d’une situation qui a existé entre elle et lui. Puis il reprend la pose de sa mère « en Olympia », les constituant ainsi tous les deux en couple œdipien.  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Abstract Voir aussi le portfolio de l'artisteNous disons : la Mort – et cette abstraction nous dispense d’en ressentir l’infini et l’horreur. En baptisant les choses et les événements nous éludons l’Inexplicable : l’activité de l’esprit est une tricherie salutaire, un exercice d’escamotage ; elle nous permet de circuler dans une réalité adoucie, confortable, inexacte. |
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