Defining what constitutes a “portrait” in Picasso’s work is not a simple matter. . . . It may emerge that, after this exhibition, it will be even harder than before to define what Picasso meant by a ...

While Ladd led her team at the Studio for Portrait Masks to create the prosthetics, she was not the sole artist working on the masks, making it difficult to credit individual masks only to one person.

For her Second Self photography series, Canadian artist Meryl McMaster asked her subjects to blindly draw single-line contous of their faces, which she then sculpted into wire masks. Worn over their ...

In the majority of the portraits the masks are, indeed, covering mouths. That pulls attention to the figures’ eyes, many of which show a mix of weariness and resilience. A post on Wednesday shows a ...