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Over the last century, artistic responses to the
human face and body have ranged from traditional
portraiture to total abstraction. Developments in
art history, social politics and popular culture, from
the feminist movement to scientific discoveries,
have greatly impacted artists’ thinking about, and
representations of, the human form. By the middle
of the twentieth century artists such as Pablo Picasso
asked: Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s
inside the face or what’s behind it?
From Head to Toe presents a survey of art made
since the 1960s that has the body and portraiture
Figurative painting and portraiture from Picasso to the present
as its focus. From recent painting and sculpture to
late-twentieth-century printmaking, From Head to
Toe presents the various ways in which the body
and the face have inspired generations of artists.
Featuring the work of both renowned figures and
up-and-coming artists, including Pablo Picasso,
Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Henry
Moore, Peter Blake, Jack Vettriano, L.S. Lowry, Andy
Warhol, Christian Hook, Vincent Kamp, Jose Royo,
Fabian Perez, Todd White, Henry Asencio, Craig
Alan and Toby Mulligan this exhibition reveals how
the face and body are vital to our continued struggle
to understand what it is to be human.
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