Portrait

While venturing the Metropolitan Museum of Art I browsed through many historical pieces of art that helped establish humanity as we know. I discovered a portrait of an emperor while actively looking at the Greek and Roman Art Department. At first glance, I noticed Greek and Roman Art department at the beginning of the museum making it easy to locate. The museum use of space with conjunction to where this gallery was placed can help to recognize the beginning of AD time period. Upon entering…

As political intentions increase and the focus into personal issues such as Australian identity and mental health gain the mass media’s attention, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia’s National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 accurately depicts the psychological inner life an individual and the constraining forces that make them into the individual portrayed in the image. The exhibition displays 43 photographs from photographers around Australia, the collections representing modern…

people would assume that a portrait is nothing more than a face. However, Annie Leibovitz often includes more information in the photograph. Some of her portraits give insights into the celebrity’s life while others do not. The formal and posed, portraits often remind us of a person’s well-known character, while the informal portraits rely on other information like environments in order to portray the person’s personality or lifestyle. In the same aspect, some of the portraits also reveal a…

The Armada Portrait, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), was painted after the English defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. The Spanish Armada was a fleet of one-hundred thirty ships with 18,000 men transporting an army from Flanders to attack England due to religious differences.1 George Gower (1540 - 1596), Queen Elizabeth’s Serjeant Painter, painted The Armada Portrait to commemorate the Queen Elizabeth I’s accomplishment in leading England to successfully defeating the Spanish…

One of my many characteristics include being abetting. In my self portrait I depict my abetting by showing my left hand with a thumbs up kind of action. I chose this type of gesture because it depicts being supportive by showing a motion that makes others go forward and it reminds me of a situation in when you need support that is usually the far away gesture people give you. In my life when ever In my life I have gotten support and I know what it is to give it to others and pass the support on…

Analysis of the Portrait of a Lady The Portrait of a Lady by Marie-Guillemine Benoist is shown at the San Diego Museum of Art. The painting once attributed to Jacques-Louis David and Vigee-Lebrun. However, was recently attributed to Marie-Guillemine Benoist. Although little known today, she was one of a number of prominent women artists working in Paris in the late 18th century. She studied with David and Lebrun(San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Art, 2015), so it is reasonable that traits from…

not coincide with what I have learned about earlier painters such as those in the Oklahoma School. The most artwork from earlier painters are traditional portraits and pictures of recording the ceremony. Fritz Scholder combined Indian culture with American culture to show the Indian with a beer can, the Indian with a American flag, and a portrait of himself with a cat. He also drew abstract in which expressed Indian’s daily life, and he expressed more emotions though his works. I have chosen…

One of the common types of paintings in Colonial Peru during the 18th century was a portrait style depicting a single figure. These portraits were not created to only be a image of the person in the painting, but also to convey information about their life and their accomplishments. One of the most notable examples of this type of painting is the Portrait of Marcos Chiguan Thopa Coronilla Inca. Marcos, a royal Inca descendant is portrayed standing very similar to the posture of the Viceroys next…

(Tour Egypt, n.d.). In the pyramid, hundreds of mummies were found with fascinating portraits of the mummified bodies (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). The funeral portraits are know as the Fayum portraits and were later found all around Egypt (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). The Fayum portraits date back to the Greco-Roman era in Egypt (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000). What was absolutely brilliant about the Fayum portrait is that they blended both of the Ancient Egyptian culture and the…

The portrait statue of the priest Kuya preaching, was made by Kosho in the Kamakura period, early 13th century, in Rokuharamitsuji, Kyoto. With 3’ 10¼” high, this statue it was made of painted wood and with inlaid eyes. The portrait statue of the priest Kuya preaching, reveals some aspect of the religious life of the monk, but because of there is no information about the priest life style or family, before he converted to a completely Buddhist man. In the statue of Kuya, the artist puts…