The portraits of Adrian Ghenie is actually the representative artists of combination of fragment face and themselves, his techniques and artifice of representation indeed use the rotation of color and the complicated configuration to deliver the feelings of contradiction and the discomforting information, the loneliness and the painfulness could be clearly seen behind his energetic and expressive style. In Self Portrait in 1945 Self-Portrait in 1945 by Adrian Ghenie on artnet as, the face of the subject was composed of luxuriant strokes, in which Adrian painted a thick impasto, and then scraped it off. Under the flat background of ochre and moss green, the Alabaster and pink layers are distorted and scraped into electrical harmony, forming the face in the composition foreground and illuminating the whole painting. In his later Self-Portrait in 2017 Self-Portrait by Adrian Ghenie at Galeria Plan B (ocula.com), he used the cool tone with a little gloss to form a sharp contrast with the warm tone representing light and heat, and abstractly and naturally expressed his complex and chaotic life. The combination of realism and abstract expression played a vital role in my research on face in self-portrait.

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Adrian Ghenie’s portrait of Trump in 2018 stands out. In this painting (compared to his other works), he restored the structure of the figure itself, dealing with the internal contents of the face in detail. The depiction of the bloody face fully shows the negative feedback brought by Protectionism during Trump’s presidency and people’s attitude to him. Their failure to support Trump’s performance in office - His violent policies towards Mexican immigrants also gave the painting a sinister and dark tone, especially considering the representation’s skin.

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Ghenie, A. Self-Portrait (2017), Oil on canvas

 

Ghenie, A. Self Portrait in 1945(2015), oil on canvas