Portraits and Philosophy by Maes Hans;

Author:Maes, Hans;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

To summarize: Kokoschka claimed that his portraits revealed the truth about his sitters, that this was due to his empathy for his sitters and to the pictorial language or style that he developed in order to arouse in his viewers the same feelings that he felt in the presence of his subjects. Although the claims for truth are exaggerated, the claims for empathy have some plausibility. His portraits do indeed allow us to empathize, just as he did, with his subjects: by empathizing with his sitters and reproducing by non-naturalistic means exaggerations of gestures that express their inner states, he not only “intuited” those inner states but allowed us to intuit them too. Indeed, it is not unreasonable to believe that when viewers empathize with these subjects, they are recreating for themselves the empathic emotions of the artist himself.63

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