Artenquire Magazine – Issue No. 4: Deciphering Faces and Self-Portraits (Apr/Jun 2026)

Dive into the exploration of faces and portraits as acts of perception, interpretation, and construction. Across Renaissance painting, modern self-portraiture, and psychological studies of visual perception, this issue follows how we see others and how we are seen in return.

This issue offers:

• Understanding why portraits became central in the Renaissance and how they reflect the rise of individuality
• Exploring self-portraiture as a space of psychological observation, from Rembrandt to Van Gogh, Schiele, and Malevich
• Discovering how photography transformed the meaning and function of painted portraiture
• Engaging with experiments in visual psychology that reveal how we actually perceive and interpret human faces

Length: 28 pages

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