Portrait

Elegant, timeless, classic … but enough about me. Let’s discuss the subject of the new National Portrait Gallery photography show, ‘Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon’. Born in Belgium in 1929, Hepburn’s early life as a ballet dancer and chorus girl led to her exceptional career as an Academy Award-winning film star. The photographic portraits on display document the many roles she played onscreen - in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Sabrina, My Fair Lady, etc - and offscreen - fashion icon,…

Throughout time the portrait style of paintings has been widely popular and there have been many different variations of them. The artist intent is to portray the human subject as well as the essence of the subject. In this essay, I will compare and contrast two portrait style paintings. The first is a painting by Gilbert Stuart titled, “Mrs. Richard Yates.” The second painting is by Gustave Courbet titled, “Madame Auguste Cuoq”. Although both of these paintings are portraits and do have their…

Pair Four: Senufo Equestrian, wood, (19 century) [Location: British Museum] and Equestrian Portrait of Charlemagne, bronze (9 century) [Location: Louvre, Paris] When art is from two different time period and two different cultures it is thought that the two pieces when compared would not have much in common. However, that is hardly ever the case; they can have similaries in meanings and cultural significance. With the help of the readings from “Icon” and “Art Through the Ages”, along with the…

made progress and the child grew more cheerful and took more interest in the world, those self-portraits changed dramatically. The child began to use bright crayons. She began to put features on the face, though for a while she kept making the mouth area black; this was during a phase in which she was saying unpleasant things. Eventually she got over that, and, lo and behold, the next self-portraits showed her mouth--smiling. And even the surrounding area of the pictures changed. In the early…

Mona Lisa can be termed as the best work of art of all time in the world. It is a half-length portrait of a woman, which was created by Leonardo Da Vinci during the period 1503 to 1506. The artwork is known to be the most famous, being the most parodied, the most written about, sung about and visited in the world. It is known by not only art lovers but by the world’s population better part. It is assumed that the artwork was a representation of Lisa Gherardini, who was the wife to Francesco…

The Theft of the Mona Lisa In 1911, while being held at a museum in Paris, one of the world’s greatest and most famous paintings, the Mona Lisa, was stolen. To this day, this particular crime is one of the most popular and famous of all, but why? What makes this crime one of the most remembered? Well, there were lots of aspects to this story that make it so interesting. Somewhere between 1504 and 1519, the masterpiece called the Mona Lisa was created.(Totally History) A world famous artist,…

painting to mark his guilt. Dorian hides the marred painting from public view and tells Basil, "There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own” (Wilde 112). Dorian believes that the changed painting is a representation of his flawed soul that has manifested as an independent living being. He says that this is "fatal" because as his obsession with the portrait grows, so does his sense of competition. He expects the his repulsive soul to overcome his physically beautiful body…

workshop and was also being trained by his father when he was younger. By 1527 Hans was assembling his creations of work but by that time it was difficult to have his own work when it was being compared to his father's.Hans valuable paintings were Portrait of a bearded Man and Hercules at the Court of Omphale, in which he signed the both of them. On october 9, 1537 Hans Cranach died in Bologna.The humanist and poet Johann Stigel wrote a long poem in praise of his skills as a painter when the…

The portrait of Julia Foster Ward was done by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in 1880. The medium is oil on canvas, it is 34 1/8” h x 27” w, it was made in the romanticism era and it is located in the Junior League Great Hall Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, Florida. It is part of the French culture in the 1836-1911 period. The museum purchase was done thanks to the funds donated by Mary Alice and Doyle Mc Clendon in 2008. Julia was born in 1857. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.…

The Mummy Portrait of a Man is from the Fayum region in Egypt. It was painted about 150-200 B.C. It is painted in encaustic on wood, and is a Fayum portrait. The term Fayum portrait is actually derived from a Coptic word meaning “The land of the lake,” which refers to the artificial Lake Qarun. This lake was a project of the kings of the Twelfth…