This
centerpiece painting provides the view of our incredible earth from outer space
- surrounded by the open faces of 25 people of all ages. If you can imagine
reducing the worlds population through the faces of my 25 friends in this global
portrait, you would have some insight into the approximate color shape of the
world as we step into the 21st Century.In
place of our present racial separation, I prefer to view, understand, and
respect the people of our planet's population as one global human family
with millions upon millions of ovelapping color combinations, face and anatomical
body structures, and an amazing diversity of ethnic and multicultural blends.
As
a portrait artist with an easy and curious attraction to the people of
our planet's human drama, I have chosen to reflect in this painting, the
trust and acceptance of the "open child" in the faces that I
both appreciated and enjoyed. Each portrait also celebrates an important
visual statement about the interesting facial differences in each individual,
the culture and ethnicity each represents and the colorful common images
in our planets human relations mosaic.
The
above painting is followed in the succeeding web pages with selected examples
from both my Faces of the World exhibition and book, with its original
art photo reproductions of over 500 representative portraits of our human
diversity and similarities in my 24 geographical regions of the world.
With
the exception of the above centerpiece painting, in all of the 24 regional
portrait paintings in my book (of which 5 examples are shown below), the
placing of each separate portrait closely relates to the location each
person lives in the corresponding regional map of our planets fascinating
geography. For example, the portrait images at the top of each painting
live in the north, at the bottom in the south, etc. of each region.
Copyright © 1999, R. Padre Johnson