Portrait

paintings that is still surviving is his portrait Mona Lisa. She was known as La Gioconda, the wife of a merchant, Francesco del Giocondo; the painting is in three-quarter view and she is seated on a stone balcony (Fiero 198). Mona Lisa is not abstract but is lifelike and realistic. The viewer can see the whole upper torso of her body placed. She is in an elegant green mossy flow fit dress. The painting is a lady who appears to be mid-late 20s. Mona Lisa’s portrait appears to be a genre scene of…

In Jesus’s time on earth, he was a revolutionary who disrupted the status quo and provided an example for how we could all love one another, how we think about people who have been looked down upon, and what it means to sacrifice oneself for something you believe in. He stayed true to his beliefs and preached the goodness of God’s kingdom. An important quality of Jesus’s was he was a consoler. His caring qualities are illustrated in Matthew Chapter 8. Jesus was teaching on a mountain and was…

Born in Italy during the Italian Renaissance, Sofia Anguissola was the first internationally recognized female artist. Influenced equally by grand mannerists and realistic portraitists, Anguissola was a pioneer in portraiture and genre painting. This paper examines the events and paintings that advanced her career and prominence. Sofonisba Anguissola, born into a noble family in Cremona, was not the daughter of an artist, unlike most female painters at that time. However, through the…

their families. While we watch the families pose for their family portraits we are also given verbal memories of each of the recently passed students and parents that died in the Sewol Ferry disaster. The verbal accounts are not given a face but come from a genuine source. I can hear the hurt and tears that come from one of the mothers whose daughter died in the Sewol Ferry. She states that she had planned to take new family portraits after her daughter's return from her school trip. This…

was hindering any positive change to the existing horrible situation that HIV/AIDS patients were experiencing. The poster mainly consists of a portrait of the US president Ronald Reagan with a menacing look in his eyes. The portrait is in black and yellow with a hint of pink in his eyes to match the colour of the word ‘AIDSGATE’ that goes across the portrait in a bold, sans serif typeface. Underneath Reagan there is a block of text saying ‘ This Political Scandal Must Be Investigated! 54% of…

Salvador Dali an artist born in Spain, is the one who created the famous painting known as The Persistence of Memory in 1931. He has overcome many obstacles at a young age, such as the loss of his mother when he was just 16 years old and that he and his father were never close. He later enrolls in an Arts Academy at Madrid, Dali dressed differently than others and had many eccentricity ideas that were both influenced by different famous artists at that time. Such as Metaphysics and Cubism, where…

notion is Alain De Botton with his philosophical discourses in “The Art of Travel”, which interweaves personal experiences with those of the past to challenge society’s perception of landscapes, and William Mackinnon’s painting “Landscape as self-portrait” which represents landscapes through the sublime. Hence the density of both texts reveal how individuals can find internal happiness through landscapes and how it in turns shapes our perspective on an individual and wider society.…

Values guide the selection or evaluation of deeds, strategies, people and events. To compute peoples’ values, the ESS survey uses an adjusted edition of a presently developed scale called the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ). The PVQ includes short verbal portraits of disparate people. Every single portrait describes a person’s objectives, aspirations, or wishes that point implicitly to the significance of a solitary basic value. For example: “Thinking up new thoughts and being creative is…

Yousuh Karsh is a famous Canadian photographer who was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern part of Ottoman Empire (Turkey). When he was 16, his parents pressured him to move to America to live with his uncle Georg Nakash; whom was also a photographer. Yousuh attend school for a very short time and stayed busy supporting his uncle with the studio work. Nakash saw the potential that his nephew had in photography so in 1928 he arranged for Yousuh an internship under a brilliant photographer…

Woodblock portrait, Hokusai has combined the faces of two demons. One demon is named Hannya, and the second is Yamanba. Hannya’s face comes from a mask used in Noh theatre and Japanese plays. The Hannya mask is supposed to portray souls of women who have become demons due to obsessive jealousy. The demon is said to be dangerous, but also tormented, which shows the complexity of human emotions. The second demon, Yamanba, is believed to eat infants brought to the mountains. In this portrait…