![History : Portrait painting
The oldest known portrait in the world comes from Czech Republic.
It shows a woman face and was made from mammoth ivory and
is about 26,000 years old. Some of the earliest surviving painted
portraits of people, who were not kings or emperors, are the funeral
portraits that survived in the dry climate of Egypt's Fayum district.
These are almost the only paintings from the classical world that have
survived, apart from frescos, though many sculptures survive, and
portraits on coins.
The art of the portrait flourished in Ancient Greek and
especially Roman sculpture, where sitters demanded
individualized and realistic portraits, even unflattering ones.
During the 4th century, the portrait began to retreat in favor of an
idealized symbol of what that person looked like.
(Compare the portraits of Roman Emperors Constantine
I and Theodosius I at their entries.) In the Europe of the Early Middle
Ages representations of individuals are mostly generalized. True
portraits of the outward appearance of individuals re‐emerged
in the late Middle Ages, in tomb monuments, donor portraits, miniatures
in illuminated manuscripts and then panel paintings.
Moche culture of Peru was one of the few ancient civilizations which
produced portraits. These works accurately represent anatomical
features in great detail. The individuals portrayed would have been
recognizable without the need for other symbols or a written reference
to their names. The individuals portrayed were members of the ruling
elite, priests, warriors and even distinguished artisans.[1]
They were represented during several stages of their lives. The faces of
gods were also depicted. To date, no portraits of women have been
found. There is particular emphasis on the representation of the details of
headdresses, hairstyles, body adornment and face painting.
One of the best‐known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da
Vinci's painting titled Mona Lisa, which is a painting of Lisa del Giocondo.
The world's oldest known portrait was found in 2006 in
the Vilhonneur grotto near Angoulême and is thought to be 27,000 years
old.[2][3]
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- 2. History : Portrait painting The oldest known portrait in the world comes from Czech Republic. It shows a woman face and was made from mammoth ivory and is about 26,000 years old. Some of the earliest surviving painted portraits of people, who were not kings or emperors, are the funeral portraits that survived in the dry climate of Egypt's Fayum district. These are almost the only paintings from the classical world that have survived, apart from frescos, though many sculptures survive, and portraits on coins. The art of the portrait flourished in Ancient Greek and especially Roman sculpture, where sitters demanded individualized and realistic portraits, even unflattering ones. During the 4th century, the portrait began to retreat in favor of an idealized symbol of what that person looked like. (Compare the portraits of Roman Emperors Constantine I and Theodosius I at their entries.) In the Europe of the Early Middle Ages representations of individuals are mostly generalized. True portraits of the outward appearance of individuals re‐emerged in the late Middle Ages, in tomb monuments, donor portraits, miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and then panel paintings. Moche culture of Peru was one of the few ancient civilizations which produced portraits. These works accurately represent anatomical features in great detail. The individuals portrayed would have been recognizable without the need for other symbols or a written reference to their names. The individuals portrayed were members of the ruling elite, priests, warriors and even distinguished artisans.[1] They were represented during several stages of their lives. The faces of gods were also depicted. To date, no portraits of women have been found. There is particular emphasis on the representation of the details of headdresses, hairstyles, body adornment and face painting. One of the best‐known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled Mona Lisa, which is a painting of Lisa del Giocondo. The world's oldest known portrait was found in 2006 in the Vilhonneur grotto near Angoulême and is thought to be 27,000 years old.[2][3] THE DEFINITION ON THE INTERNET
- 3. Portrait ˈpɔːtrɪt/ noun 1. a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders. 2. denoting a format of printed matter which is higher than it is wide. You can print landscape and portrait pages in the same document A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer THEDEFINITIONONTHEINTERNET
- 4. Portrait photography[edit] Main article: Portrait photography Portrait photography is a popular commercial industry all over the world. Many people enjoy having professionally made family portraits to hang in their homes, or special portraits to commemorate certain events, such as graduations or weddings. Since the dawn of photography, people have made portraits. The popularity of the daguerreotype in the middle of the 19th century was due in large part to the demand for inexpensive portraiture. Studios sprang up in cities around the world, some cranking out more than 500 plates a day. The style of these early works reflected the technical challenges associated with 30‐second exposure times and the painterly aesthetic of the time. Subjects were generally seated against plain backgrounds and lit with the soft light of an overhead window and whatever else could be reflected with mirrors. As photographic techniques developed, an intrepid group of photographers took their talents out of the studio and onto battlefields, across oceans and into remote wilderness.William Shew's Daguerreotype Saloon, Roger Fenton's Photographic Van and Mathew Brady's What‐is‐it? wagon set the standards for making portraits and other photographs in the field. Sharaku: Actor Ichikawa Ebozo as Takemura Sadanoshin, 1794… P1 Roman‐Egyptian funeral portraitof a young boy
- 5. Self-portraiture[edit] Main article: self-portrait When the artist creates a portrait of him- or herself, it is called a self-portrait. Identifiable examples become numerous in the late Middle Ages, but if the definition is extended the first was by the EgyptianPharaoh Akhenaten's sculptor Bak, who carved a representation of himself and his wife Taheri c. 1365 BC. However, it seems likely that self-portraits go back to the cave paintings, the earliest representational art, and literature records several classical examples that are now lost. Personality type From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the generic aspects of type theory. For the book by Jung, see Psychological Types. Personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals. Personality types are sometimes distinguished from personality traits, with the latter embodying a smaller grouping of behavioral tendencies. Types are sometimes said to involve qualitative differences between people, whereas traits might be construed asquantitative differences.[1] According to type theories, for example, introverts and extraverts are two fundamentally different categories of people. According to trait theories, introversion and extraversion are part of a continuous dimension, with many people in the middle.
- 7. Artists learnt to use perspective a few hundred years ago. If you look at old paintings ‐ before the 15th century ‐ you will see that most of them are pictures of things on a flat background. There doesn't seem to be much space in them. You can see examples of paintings which have bigger and smaller things in them before the 15th century, but nothing that suggests depth or the use of "perspective" as an art tool. In Italy during the Renaissance, people started to wonder why things looked the way they looked, and to wonder how you could make pictures look more like the world we see around us. Some artists invented the system that we call perspective for describing things visually. We use the same system today, in computer programs and design, this is because it still looks "right". But it is only a system for making things seem to look "right". You can make a drawing look like anything you want, you can take a picture of anything you want, but every time you do these things you are telling a sort of lie, because you are creating an illusion. We know that all drawings, paintings and photos are really just flat surfaces with marks on them. Perspective is only a system and some of the things about it aren't quite "right".
- 10. Sharaku: Actor Ichikawa Ebozo as Takemura Sadanoshin, 1794 The portrait on the left is nearly thousand years old and on the right two hundred years. The realistic approach of Greek and Roman whereas emotional aspect of Orient or Asia. Some of the earliest surviving painted portraits of people, who were not kings or emperors, are the funeral portraits that survived in the dry climate of Egypt's Fayum district.
- 12. Émile Schuffenecker (8 December 1851 – 31 July 1934) was a French Post‐Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector. A friend of Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh, Schuffenecker was instrumental in establishing the Volpini exhibition, in 1889. His own work, however, tends to have been neglected since his death—and even worse, recent season campaigns in the media have reactivated resentments virulent since the late 1920s, when Schuffenecker was suspected to have imitated the work of other contemporary artists, among them, Van Gogh.[citation needed] Still a contentious issue, it has not been established whether he produced forgeries. Meanwhile, serious scholarly research at least has provided the base for a sober art historical approach to Schuffenecker's life and work. 220px‐Schuffenecker_self_portrait This is the self portrait of the artist himself…
- 23. Frans Hals the Elder (/hɑːls/;[1] Dutch: [ɦɑls]; c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter who lived and worked in Haarlem. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th‐century group portraiture.
- 26. Jan Van Eyck