{"product_id":"face-to-face-portraits-by-judy-schavrien-9798334701342","title":"Face to Face: Portraits by Judy Schavrien","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Judy Schavrien\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Artists, Architects, Photographers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From Rembrandt to Ingmar Bergman, the human face has served as the artist's most profound landscape. Judy Schavrien follows in that vein with this impassioned collection of portraits of many kinds of people, some suffering, some triumphing over old age and infirmity. The artist reveals herself and her richly variegated sensibility in this stunning gallery.\" (Joseph McBride, Author, \u003ci\u003e Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success\u003c\/i\u003e ) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[It] is a beautiful gem of a book! Schavrien touches the heart and soul with her deeply personal weaving of prose and portraiture. Through her sensitive exploration of the human face and the stories to be discovered there, we come to see and feel more profoundly what it means to be human.\" (Helen S. Cohen, Artist; Filmmaker, \u003ci\u003e Open Studio Production\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Her] paintings are soul x-rays, portals to the mysterious and deeply moving inner lives of her subjects. Beyond being an artist and a psychotherapist, she is a seer. As Martin Buber has said, we can encounter the world as I-It or I-Thou. Schavrien's visionary art tracks...the sacred Thou.\" (Dr. Jacob Shefa, Mentor-Director, \u003ci\u003e KARE\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Whether she gives us \u003ci\u003eBarbara as the Queen Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, a lovely traditional portrait, though edged with irony;\u003ci\u003e Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, with its few, elegant linear gestures; or \u003ci\u003elife like leaves falling\u003c\/i\u003e, an almost non-objective portrayal, Schavrien serves up a visual feast. She is a thoroughly modern artist, master of her mediums.\" (Neil Kalmanson, Professor Emeritus of Art) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Best of all, Schavrien combines portraits of her contemporaries in the flesh with portraits of those who haunt our imaginations. [There is] the uniquely dramatic collection of the heroes and heroines who walked the ancient Greek stage and still float in the background of our culture after 2500 years.\u003ci\u003e In extremis\u003c\/i\u003e, each character confronts us, Oedipus, Cassandra, Antigone. Then there is Hades, Lord of the Underworld, 'who feasts on the victims of war.' What a feat of imagination!\" (Terry Joan Baum, Owner, \u003ci\u003eEureka Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e)","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45553505992855,"sku":"9798334701342","price":2132.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798334701342.webp?v=1768586296","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/face-to-face-portraits-by-judy-schavrien-9798334701342","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}