Portriats - Why???
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When we have digital cameras why make a portrait any other way?
Portraits
A brief survey
"The aim of Art is to present not the outward appearance of things, but their inner significance; for this, not the external
manner and detail, constitutes true reality. - Aristotle
In ancient cultures human form was used primarily to portray the supernatural.
Venus of Willendorf, 20,000 B.C.E.
Isis/Aphrodite – 2nd century Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Egyptian painting from the time of Akhenaton 1353-35 B.C.E.
Heracles and Athena. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, 480–470 BC. From Vulci
Belvedere Apollo, Greek 5 B.C.E.
As civilization grew and people became stable specialists arose as did a ruling or monied class.
Fayum Mummy Portraits dating from 1st century B.C.E.
Mughal Empire – 1526 – mid 19th century
Prince Khurram (Shah Jahan) with his son Dara Shikoh: Leaf from an album made for Emperor Shah Jahan, ca. 1620; Mughal, period of Jahangir (1605–27
Two gentlemen engrossed in conversation while two others look on, a Chinese painting on a ceramic tile from a tomb near Luoyang, Henan province, dated to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 AD)
Han Dynasty Painting, 206 BCE – 220 AD
“Four Generals of Zhongxing” by Southern Song Dynasty artists Liu Songnian (1174-1224).
The official Chinese court portrait painting of the empress and wife of Song Dynasty emperor Qinzong (1100 – 1161)
Qin Shi Huangdi - "First Emperor of Qin Dynasty"
Soon after the French and American revolutions (18th century) the more common man became interested in portraiture. After all, everyone was created equal.
sillouette
Robert Cornelius, Self Portrait, 1839
Vncent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1888
Vncent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1889
Vncent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1889
Henri Matisse, Madame Matisse (the Green Stripe), 1905
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
M.C. Esher
Giacometti
Alice Neel
Alice Neel
Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta
Hannah Wilke
Hannah Wilke
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville
Mauruzio Anzeri
Mauruzio Anzeri
Mauruzio Anzeri
Zhang Xiagang
Zhang Xiagang
Zhang Xiagang
Fang Lijun
Fang Lijun
Fang Lijun
Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan