Friday spoke to five artists about how they used eyes to express their artistic vision.
Sculptors employ various techniques to make eyes set in stone convey an emotion. "If the eyes are carved shallow, the figure represents an introverted person. If they are carved deep into the face, it represents an extrovert. It is one of the most difficult jobs in a hard, unfluid medium to perfect the technical art of curvature, lines and depth," Smoldyreva says.
"In the strictness of art, when an artist or a student renders an observation, drawing or painting, connecting a particular object as it is seen through the scrutiny of a careful gaze with the inner image of the same object in the brain,
moncler, leads to a powerful bond. The positive visual response - meaning the object rendered has the same appearance as the object observed - depends on the flexibility to adjust and rely on what the eyes see rather than act in response to what is stored in the brain. And that is called talent."
A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the UK-based Association for Psychological Science, found most people look to the eyes to be able to connect with a human face, whether in real life or art.
Even momentarily, looking into another person's eyes helps us share something, however fleeting.
Wheatley told Friday, "We found that the eyes are critically important to conveying life and mind in a face. Eyes also telegraph mental connection. That is, eyes tell us whether a person is interested in what we are saying and who we are, whether people are sharing our experience or not. In short, eyes are so important to us because more than any other facial feature, it is the eyes which convey the presence of another mind and its ability to connect with our own."
According to Smoldyreva, even the direction of the gaze is very important to lend the sculpture vitality and life. "With just a slight change in the colour of the pupil, you can give the illusion of light reflecting from the eyes, which sets the direction of the gaze. A slight twist to the shape of the eyebrows can make a figure look happy, sad, angry or confused."
Bena Samuel, painter
The one thing that defines her working style, says Bena Samuel, is that she always starts her portraits with the eyes. Specialising in portraits in watercolours, Samuel has been an artist for 17 years and teaches art at the Dubai International Arts Centre. She has also held a few solo exhibitions of her watercolours. "The eyes give the face a symmetry and once I have sketched them, it helps with the other measurements," she says.
"If the mime's eyes are ‘lazy or dead' in a performance," says Luis, "the audience will not believe him or allow themselves to be taken on a journey,
air jordan, regardless of how good the technique and storytelling ability is."
The co-authors of the study, Thalia Wheatley from Dartmouth College and Christine Looser, a graduate student from the university,
ralph lauren, carried out exercises with people to pin down the point at which a face starts to look ‘alive'.
In a mime illusion act,
abercrombie, where the audience needs to pay more attention or are likely to lose the sense of what is taking place, the eyes are a point of focus in that they direct the audiences' attention to ‘what next'. The act of mime, says Luis, is also about knowing when not to move, to be still and it is at those moments that the eyes play a powerful emotive role in the storytelling.
Cynthia Capriata, art teacher
Cynthia Capriata from Lima, Peru, has an art degree from New York and is now an Abu Dhabi-based art educator who teaches more than 400 students from KG1 to Grade 7 and university students at Zayed University. Instead of dwelling on the importance of eyes in a work of art, she focuses on the eyes of those looking at a piece and how they can influence its interpretation. The key word for her is ‘perception'.
He finds it difficult to have a conversation with a person he cannot see. "If you had worn a mask,
abercrombie and fitch, I would not have been able to talk to you. I would feel weird." The eyes are important as they hold the truth and give us an ‘insight' into a person's true character. Therefore, Fernandez feels he has to look into the eyes of a person when he is communicating with them.
The power of the eyes to embody the fullness of life, or lack of it, has been an absolute truth since evolution. Our deepest reactions and emotions are often the result of making eye contact.
Ask an art lover about the mesmerising quality of the Mona Lisa, her eyes. From every angle, they seem to be looking directly at you with a life-like quality.
One of the methods they used was to take pictures of dolls' faces, select photos of human faces that most closely resembled those dolls and then using special morphing software,
mercurial, create final images that were part-doll, part-human. Volunteers were asked to look at each picture and determine which of the morphed images were human and which were of dolls. The tipping point was where the face was closer to a human-like face with eyes that were ‘alive'.
The artists of those times, she says,
air jdoan pas cher, believed eyes were symbols of regality or beauty, so used the features in sculpture with ornamentation to a degree that robbed the eyes of reality. "Sculptors would paint the eyes or encrust them with precious stones. The colours faded or the stones fell out with time and eventually the statues ended up with blank eyes. When busts are done where the figure holds a likeness to a person, there is great detailing in the eye to make the sculpture come ‘alive'," she says.
If you want to experience dynamism, vitality and movement even when the body is perfectly still, it can be done through the eyes. The most expressive feature on a human face, eyes, are a particular challenge in sculpture because this art is essentially a static medium. "Especially sculpture in bronze and stone," says Smoldyreva.
She cites the example of 18th and 19th century sculptures. "Take a look at neo-classical traditions of sculptures from Greece and Egypt and you will notice that the eyes are stony and blank. There is a vacant expression that creates a distance between the object and the observer."
Samuel often reassesses her painting if she feels she has not got the eyes right. "I like gazing into a person's eyes to be able to read them."
She has a particularly strong memory of her best friend at school and her grey-green eyes. "I have lost touch with her," says Samuel, "but when I find her, I think I will be able to connect all over again through her eyes."
Eyes, says Luis, express the invisible world of human relationships. "Look into another person's eyes," he says, "and something is given and something received. There are no words, there's no need for words. In everyday life, how often do we acknowledge another person by looking into their eyes? Not in an uncomfortable, quick way or a fleeting glance but in a definitive pause and exchange. It's not a mechanical reflex but a meaningful act. Studying, practising and performing mime has made me more aware of how we relate to other people without words, and eye contact is very important in this."
One of the giveaways of the true intent of a person, according to Fernandez, is the gap between the overall facial expression and the message in the eyes. "When a person smiles, he deliberately stretches his facial muscles in order to convey pleasure but if the smile doesn't reach his eyes, you can tell he is faking it."
A new study highlights how one look can say far more than one word ever could. Artists share how their work is shaped by the eyes
By Suchitra Bajpai Chaudhary, Friday magazine Published: 00:00 April 29, 2011 Image Credit: Grace Paras/ANM Eyes make a sculpture come 'alive', says sculptor Katerina Smoldyreva. Image 1 of 5 12345
"Picasso understood this well and therefore engaged the audience by magnifying facial features in a grotesque way in his works. He exaggerated facial features and changed their position on imagined faces to create highly original portraits. These distortions have not only startled the viewers for many years,
louboutin, they have compelled people to respond to such distortions in a deeply individualistic way. The space between the portrait and the observer gets charged with emotions and inevitably leads the viewer to think, ‘Do I look like that?"
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For her, eyes, are the soul of a painting. "In watercolours, it is far more difficult to repaint a thing. Therefore you have to reserve the lighter colours for the eyes and one of the first things I do while beginning a painting is think of the eyes and how I will reflect life in them with the use of lighter colours or whites."
Stuart Luis, mime artist
Stuart Luis, director of Mimespace, UK, believes the eyes are a point of contact in a mime act that encourage the audience's to ask, ‘What next?' The most important function of mime, he says, is to turn an invisible world into a visible one. The other is to use eyes to connect with the audience.
She says, "The nuances in the expressions [of people] and the spaces between individual features that influence the size and shape of each are seen by different people in different ways.
Francisco Fernandez, portrait photographer
Francisco Fernandez, a Dubai-based Spanish portrait photographer, thinks eyes are like magnets. They draw you to a person. "When looking at someone's face or portrait, I am drawn to the eyes first as they give us so much information about that person. Communication, it is said, is 90 per cent non-verbal. I would say eyes play a major part in that."
During the process of creating his portraiture, Fernandez pays close attention to the emotions being expressed by his subject. The essence of an animated spirit, he believes, is in the person's eyes. "As a photographer, I believe every portrait is a world in itself. There is no one formula to achieve the best possible portrait; it is always a joint exploration. As you move on in that journey together, you discover new things, new expressions, features in that person's face you hadn't noticed before and when you discover them, you want to emphasise them. I always try to get the ‘spark' in the eye to show through because it provides a hint to the subject's personality."
Katerina Smoldyreva, sculptor
Katerina Smoldyreva is a student of English literature, and also teaches ceramic sculpture at the Dubai International Arts Centre (DIAC). One of the most intensive aspects of creating a sculpture, she says, is the detailing of the eyes.
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