Arnolfini Portrait

During the 15th century portraiture was beginning to manifest in art. This genre of art began to become the main source of income for many Flemish artists (Kleiner, 555). Notably, portraits were usually used as gifts in order to insure remembrance or to assert higher authority. Flemish artists would embellish symbolic meanings in the details of their paintings. An example of this would be in Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin by Rogier Van Der Weyden, on the armrests it depicts Adam, Eve, and the…

invented in 1839, it quickly became the most influential medium as it is more connected with the reality compared to painting. It provides us a new way to explore questions of ourselves in relation to the world. As a dominant theme of photography, portrait photography practiced by many artists as the diversity of the subject matter. Like Andy Grundberg (1999, p.200) indicated that, “More than any other kind of images today, portraiture photographs seem able to speck to us directly, without any…

royalty, religious figures, and today with the advancements in technology, portraits are taken and shared with the world instantly. What defines a portrait is debatable; portraits can show a person’s true personality, or show who they want to be, that’s all up to the artist. Many cultures have different styles of creating portraits and the biggest difference between cultures is the way they choose to show the subject of the portraits. Venus of Willendorf from Willendorf Austria is an early…

untouchable. The arc of this growing flexibility of perception is apparent when juxtaposing the Daguerreotype portrait of Frederick Douglas (1847), Andy Warhol’s silkscreen Self-Portrait (1967) and Juliana Huxtable’s ink-jet photograph titled Untitled in the Rage…

Portrait painting thrived in the Netherlands with the increase in production driven by interest in the idea of personhood and the definition of the individual self. Portraits help document the development of a personal identity as it connects factors like marital status, class, and profession. A common portrait genre produced during the seventeenth century portrays their subjects with an impassive demeanor with little vigor. At first, these paintings may be evaluated as lacking “personality” or…

The Portrait of Louise Antoinette Scholastique Gueheneuce, Madame la Marechale Lannes, Dechesse de Montebello, with her Children, is a French work of art created in 1814. Measuring approximately a hundred and two inches in height, oil on canvas this portrait portrays the widow and her children in bright colors showing the importance of the family. Mounted on the wall surrounded within a copper frame that has spiraling butterfly figure. Located next to many other European arts within the Museum…

nobility, but also of notable personalities in the arts and letters of her time.” (May, 1) Accomplishing an early start in her career, Vigée-LeBrun, at the age of fifteen was already supporting her recently widowed mother and younger brother through her portrait paintings. (NMWA, web) According…

eastern Pennsylvania since he was a child prodigy. He was a self-taught artist who began his career in Pennsylvania painting portraits from the year 1746 to 1759. In 1760, he met William Allen a wealth merchant, a chief justice and mayor of Pennsylvania…

Portrait painting thrived in the Netherlands with the increase in production driven by interest in the idea of personhood and the definition of the individual self. Portraits help document the development of a personal identity as it connects factors like marital status, class, and profession. A common portrait genre produced during the seventeenth century portrays their subjects with an impassive demeanor with little vigor. At first, the paintings may be evaluated as lacking “personality” or…

renowned and influential portrait artists. The Art Gallery of South Australia has curated an exhibit of the artist’s portraiture and drawing works. Robert Hannaford’s impact upon Australian Art can hardly be overlooked. A regular Archibald Prize finalist since 1994, he has painted the likes of former Prime Minister Paul Keating, Chancellors and Ministers within Parliament,…