The performing face ↗
An expression held still, ready to move. These Japanese masks were made for different performance traditions; their individual records retain those distinctions.
An expression held still, ready to move. These Japanese masks were made for different performance traditions; their individual records retain those distinctions.
Horns, beaks, tusks and sweeping silhouettes. Read each object in its own cultural context: a shared animal form does not imply a shared meaning.
A performer, a public figure, a mythical hero. The face becomes a sculptural subject in work by Rodin, Bourdelle and Motto.
The grain of wood. The weight of metal. Cloth, beads, pigment and plant fibres. Materials are part of what a mask makes visible.