Paula Tudor - Face of Christ

The iconographic subject of Christ's face has ancient origins and is connected to the legend of Veronica. The episode in which Christ's true likeness was imprinted on a cloth used by a woman to wipe his face is also recounted in the Gospels. This woman was identified as Veronica, likely due to the similarity with the Latin words "Vera Icon." Since the early Christian era, the face of Christ has been the object of particular veneration. Its depiction has pervaded the entire history of Western art. From the first iconic representations of the early Christian and early Middle Ages, we gradually moved on to increasingly naturalistic (starting in the Renaissance) or realistic (typical of Flemish art) depictions.

The panel consciously draws on the Byzantine tradition, reworking it with a contemporary sensibility. Byzantine art retains all its strongly archaic stylistic features, aimed at exalting the supernatural and divine nature of what is depicted. For this reason, the panel exhibits a marked anti-naturalism, still reminiscent of the Middle Ages. The conception of space is non-rational; in the perfectly central depiction, the subject occupies a hieratic position and a superhuman fixity. The facial features are generalized, and the gaze is lost in contemplation of the divine. These are all elements that contribute to the work's transcendent aura.

Paula Tudor was born in 1951 in Niculitel, Romania. She graduated with a degree in painting in 1974 from the Nicolae Grigorescu Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where she studied under the renowned painter Traian Bradean. She has been a member of the Romanian Union of Visual Artists since 1994.

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