EXAMINATION OF GENETIC PORTRAIT THROUGH KEVIN CLARKE'S ARTWORKS

Abstract

Portrait is one of the oldest genres in painting. Through the ages, the portrait has been quite influential in defining a historical moment. One of the most important features of the portrait is that the person whose portrait is made is recognized by the target audience. The distinctive features of the people whose portraits were made between the 16th and 20th centuries were tried to be provided by similarity. In addition to the similarity, we also come across examples that present the psychological or mental state of the person away from the description of a dull moment. While this may be a person who has an important place in history, such as Pope Innocent X, painted by Diego Velazquez, sometimes we can encounter a psychological reflection that the artist turns to himself. As in the self-portraits of Rembrandt and Van Gogh. In these portraits, we are amazed by the artist's ingenuity, even though we have never seen or never seen the person portrayed. A face in flesh and bone, partially bloody and alive, meets almost everything we expect from the representation. However, in the genetic portrait, we do not encounter a bloody, lively face posing in a familiar stance. Such portraits do not contain any elements recognizable to the viewer. Identity has been stripped of its appearance and reduced to the essence. Persons can be identified by the names given to the pictures. One of the most important artists of the genetic portrait, which has become a new species in the collaboration of science and art, is Kevin Clarke. Clarke maked the portrait with the letters A (Adenine), C (Cytosine), G (Guanine), T (Thymine). By eliminating the general image of the person, it superimposes the genetic codes of that person on an image that it symbolically associates with the person. In this research with descriptive scanning model; The genetic portrait is handled in line with the artworks of Kevin Clarke.