Thousands of Tiny Lines Create the Distinctiveness of Every Face

Al Liwaa: Since their inception, artist Mart Visser’s paintings have represented a revolution in the concept of portraiture. He draws the person out of the material. Hence his statement, “Every face, every person, every human being has more than 8000 lines in their face,” seems a crucial key—not because it offers a literal scientific figure so much as because it reveals…