John Kindness

The human figure as a totem in visual art isn’t rooted in portraiture. It has served rather as a means to explore identity or an archetype, stretching from the sacred...

Long before he discovered the works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a painter whose portraits are assembled from objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books, John Kindness was aware of...

‘Prosopopoeia’ is a term usually associated with literature and denotes a rhetorical device in which an imaginary, absent or deceased person is represented as speaking or acting. Without it, the...