Portrait

Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbury Connecticut. She first became interested in art while attending Northwood High School where she wrote and played music. She then studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. After living on an Israeli kibbutz for a short period of time, Leibovitz returned to the United States and started working for Rolling Stone magazine. When she started working for Rolling Stone magazine, she worked as a staff photographer. At the age of 23,…

Alps,1801 -a classical equestrian portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte. Historically, a portrait composition favours representing the white body. Even on the rare occasion, the model was a person of colour, the aspects of the paintings continued to favour whiteness. Christian and European cultural iconography was still overwhelmingly apparent in these portraits, and the subjects were lit in ways that favoured the lighter complexion. When black bodies are included in portraits of white models, they are…

During the fifteenth century, Florence was filled with artistic, humanistic, technological, and scientific achievements, in the midst of a period known as the Renaissance. Founded on the rediscovery of the classical world, Renaissance culture focused on hero ideals and promoted the study of the liberal arts, largely centering on the individual’s intellectual potential. At this time, Florence was influenced largely by the powerful Medici family, who had political and financial influence over most…

loathsome old-man in the painting, then he tried to tear the portrait with a knife. However, people found the portrait displaying Dorian’s splendid youth and beauty, and a dead man lying on the floor. The dead man was the same image that the portrait had shown to Dorian. By destroying the portrait, his appearance turned back to his real image. Donald R. Dickson, a professor of English at Texas A&M University, says, “Only by destroying the portrait can he strip away the masks and discover that…

make up the scene. Specifically, this painting depicts a young man who is leaning forward to inspect a portrait of a woman and looking through a magnifying glass to examine a brooch clasped close to her chest. Light and shadow are used to create the illusion of depth on the young man’s form; he almost appears to be three dimensional as he gazes at her portrait. The colors on the woman’s portrait are bright, involving the primary colors at a greater intensity than anywhere else in the…

her nude photographic collection S.O.S — Starification Object Series. This work introduced her signature use of chewing gum vulva mini-sculptures stuck to her body and reflects her frequent use of the self-portrait. Wilke coined the term “performalist self-portraits” to describe her self-portraits that she directed others to photograph. Much of her work was aimed at exaggerating and satirizing hegemonic standards of femininity in America. Notable works of Wilke’s include her performance and…

they are portrays to the public through media, Roman arts were closely intertwined with politics and propaganda. One example of such art propaganda is the Portrait of Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, early-first-century CE copy of bronze original of ca. 20 B.C.E. Marble, 6’8’’ high. Musei Vaticani, Rome. At first glance, this portrait shows Augustus as an orator and a general, but this sculpture also displays his power and ideology. It shows Augustus as a great military victor and a…

Wales aka King George IV was a voluptuous person in the eighteenth century who was could be seen in many different ways. In the portait painted by John Gillray, the the POW showed very debateable charateristics. After careful scruntization of his portrait, the voluptuary lacks the necessary qualities needs to be king. The first reason why the POW shouldn’t be king is because his attire is elegant but very poorly fit. The second…

Cindy Sherman was born on January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, NJ. She is known for her photography and also being a film director. Famous for her conceptual portraits, which are pictures that illustrate an idea or story for the viewers. Being a contemporary master of socially critical photography, she is a woman of the “Pictures Generation”. Studying art in college, she attended The State University of New York, Buffalo in the early 1970’s. Moving into the city she decided to pursue an artistic…

Both artwork portrait is almost identical but different in their own way. As both have a similar gesture, position, and concept from the view of the painting. Different between both, is the background, the fame, the figure that in the portrait. The St. Matthew from the gospel book of Charlemagne (fig.10.13) presentation show that this is a portrait of roman painting because of the natural and solidity with inhabit the setting of the landscape. It also has a halo on the person who presume to be…