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When do people When do people create portraits? create portraits? and Who creates and Who creates them? them?

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When do people create When do people create portraits?portraits?and Who creates them?and Who creates them?

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Inanna - Female Head from Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 BCE

Inanna is currently located in Inanna is currently located in Baghdad, IraqBaghdad, Iraq

Inanna is the Sumerian Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and goddess of love, fertility, and warfarewarfare

Can anyone tell me where Can anyone tell me where Sumer is located?Sumer is located?

Inanna is one of the earliest Inanna is one of the earliest examples of portraiture, and is examples of portraiture, and is a perfect example of basing a perfect example of basing portraits on gods and portraits on gods and goddesses.goddesses.

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Portrait bust of a man, 1st century BCE

Roman bustRoman bust

What term was What term was coined by the coined by the romans?romans?

Romans were some of Romans were some of the first people to the first people to create portraits of create portraits of people who were not people who were not deities.deities.

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Court portrait of Emperor Shenzong of Song (circa 1067-1085), Chinese

What are some What are some differences in this differences in this portrait and portraits we portrait and portraits we have looked at from have looked at from western countries?western countries?

This portrait is from the This portrait is from the earliest time period of earliest time period of surviving Chinese surviving Chinese portraitsportraits

Portrait painting in China Portrait painting in China probably goes back to probably goes back to 1000BCE1000BCE

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Rembrandt, Portrait of the Artist at His Easel 1660

Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch, Is Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch, Is considered one of the greatest considered one of the greatest European portrait painters of all European portrait painters of all timetime

Rembrandt is known for his Rembrandt is known for his highly realistic, well trained style.highly realistic, well trained style.

Rembrandt is especially known Rembrandt is especially known for his self portraits.for his self portraits.

A letter published in 2004 by Margaret S. Livingstone, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, suggests that Rembrandt, whose eyes failed to align correctly, suffered from stereo blindness.[67] This conclusion was made after studying 36 of Rembrandt's self-portraits. Because he could not form a normal binocular vision, his brain automatically switched to one eye for many visual tasks. This disability could have helped him to flatten images he saw, and then put it onto the two-dimensional canvas. Livingstone theorized that this was an advantage for the painter: "Art teachers often instruct students to close one eye in order to flatten what they see. Therefore, stereo blindness might not be a handicap—and might even be an asset—for some artists."[68]

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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Portrait of Dr Gachet Seated at a Table 1890

Van Gogh, another Van Gogh, another Dutch painter, was Dutch painter, was known as a post known as a post impressionist, whose impressionist, whose work was seen by few work was seen by few and liked by fewer.and liked by fewer.

His work features loose His work features loose lines, brush strokes, lines, brush strokes, and bold colors.and bold colors.

This workwas sold for $82.5 million in 1990

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Georges Braque, Head Georges Braque, Head of a woman, 1909of a woman, 1909

Braque, a contemporary of Braque, a contemporary of Picasso, was also a member Picasso, was also a member of the cubist movementof the cubist movement

Notice the way the different Notice the way the different planes of the face is planes of the face is abstracted to emphasize the abstracted to emphasize the different planes on the facedifferent planes on the face

What are some differences What are some differences in his work, and the Picasso in his work, and the Picasso works you havee seen?works you havee seen?

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What other professions can What other professions can you think of who create you think of who create portaits?portaits?

AuthorAuthor

BiographiesBiographies

Portrait photographerPortrait photographer

family portraitsfamily portraits

year booksyear books

prom picturesprom pictures

Film makersFilm makers

DocumentariesDocumentaries

Biographical filmsBiographical films

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Assignment: Drawing Assignment: Drawing facial featuresfacial features

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establish proportion and establish proportion and perspective of the eyes and perspective of the eyes and browbrow

determine the placement and determine the placement and movement of the eyebrows, movement of the eyebrows, these are important in these are important in conveying an expressionconveying an expression

Develop tones within the eye, Develop tones within the eye, iris, pupil, lids, highlight of the iris, pupil, lids, highlight of the eye. Highlight will help to give eye. Highlight will help to give the eye a glossy wet texturethe eye a glossy wet texture

Finish developing tones around Finish developing tones around the eyes, as well as within the the eyes, as well as within the eye, also completing eye eye, also completing eye lashes and brows. lashes and brows.

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establish perspective establish perspective of brow, nostrils, of brow, nostrils, bridge, and tipbridge, and tip

establish different establish different planes of the noseplanes of the nose

look for obvious dark look for obvious dark tones and begin adding tones and begin adding tones from theretones from there

develop the darkest develop the darkest tones and soften where tones and soften where lighter tones meet lighter tones meet highlights.highlights.

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establish perspective, establish perspective, determine where determine where highlighted areas arehighlighted areas are

develop the form and develop the form and texture, between the texture, between the two lips is he two lips is he strongest linestrongest line

build tones and and build tones and and any highlights with any highlights with erasereraser

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determine position of determine position of ear on the headear on the head

create main lines create main lines and forms within the and forms within the earear

develop the forms of develop the forms of the ear, look for the ear, look for darkest darks and darkest darks and lightest lights.lightest lights.