Big Self Portrait: Photo-Realism

Like the painting, the sketch exhibits a number of West 's finest imaging and clearly and convincingly depicts all of the feeling of a frightful scene. The larger oil on canvas work isn 't one portrait, but rather, a

In the late 1950’s, Warhol began to have the interest in painting. He painted his first well-known paintings, which was based on comics, and ads he found in 1961. The next year the big spots lights came on and he had his big introduction on the Campbell’s Soup Can series, which changed him completely. Shortly after, Warhol got the inspiration and started working on a large variety of movie star portraits, including Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and the biggest of all Marilyn Monroe. Using screen-printing process, and knowing that Marilyn was one of the biggest deaths in a while, he decided to take that for granted and come up with this marvilent idea to make him go viral.

Brett whiteley’s self portrait in the studio was a realism painting and stretch the definition of portraiture. I think that the artwork is set in Brett Whiteley's studio with his furniture and his other artworks around him. I think that this painting feels calm.

Jenny Saville’s ‘Plan’ from 1993 is a large scale (274x213cm), Self portrait, oil painting. The painting is much larger than life size. The viewer is looking up her body with the focal point being the bottom of her body but the sharpness of the painting at the top. With a very detailed depiction of her head and face and with her arm reaching

This painting contains an old bald African American with a serious blunt face. The man have bags under his eyes and a large nose. Kapher went into depth making the features of his face a certain facial expression. It size also gave the painting such a vivid appearance with half of the African American face right in the middle-top of the painting. Its colors are brown for the African American male, black for the background; then he used a splatter painting technique at the bottom with navy blue, grey, and white. The splatter at the bottom gives the painting more to observe at than just a fifty year old man with a determined look. I will imagine that Kapher used painting an old man in a concerning mood with his mouth covered will best show a true realistic painting. The painting itself does not show much of realistic art, so I believe it's the meaning that gives the painting a naturalistic art stylistic

Chuck Close the famous artist known for his unusual style of painting called Contemporary art once said “Inspiration is for amateurs” which means you paint what you see you dont get inspiration from anyone you just paint. Contemporary art was produced at the present period in time. Contemporary art includes, and develops from, older art, which is itself a success to modern art. One of Chuck Close’s most famous paintings is his big self portrait of himself in 1968 which was 107-½ × 83-½ × 2 inches.

His hand is positioned on the bottom left of the frame with the fingers and palm situated towards the middle left side. The shoulders positioned in the top third cut through representing a horizon. The direction of the fingers makes your eye travel around the painting, the tie the slices through the middle of the shirt, the cuff of the shirt cuts across to stop your eye falling out of the frame, the lightness balancing all the darkness. The mouth dominates the image and drags you eye back to the

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John William Godward’s painting lone portrays how the maintenance of appearance and self preservation is a desideratum. The painting consists of a pale, curly haired brunette woman with a flower crown set on her head, looking into a handheld mirror as she strikes a pose with her opposite hand. Flowing down from her shoulders and around her waist, the sheer quality of her gown paired with the tightness of the gold ribbon wrapped tightly to accentuate her figure exudes sensuality.

Chuck Close is an american artist known for his realism portraits that are about 9 feet tall. He has faced many challenges in his life including dyslexia and eventually becomimg paralysed from the neck down. He believes that these challenges have made him a stronger person and artist. As he said, “Almost every decision I've made as an artist is an outcome of my particular learning disorders.”

His work of the portraits is often associated with photographic realism movements in which he blurred the distinction between painting and photography that had never been done. It is more interesting considering that Close couldn’t recognize faces due to his illness and he could be able to create a work replicating the particular details of his selected faces. Close continue to search for his own signature style by experimenting with alternative forms and materials. After close moved to Manhattan, New York, he taught at the School of Visual Arts and married a former student, Leslie Rose. Despite the time that Process art was popular, he started working with photographs in 1966 taking black-and-white pictures of a young woman to use in a study for a reclining nude. Close work from photographs by cutting into a grid and transferred onto a bigger and longer canvas forming one of his famous works, The Big Nude (1967). It is a female nude image that is an abstract and a figurative

This leads us to The Connoisseur, an oil painting on canvas completed in 1961. That year, Rockwell ambitiously challenged himself to approach the canvas like Jackson Pollack (1912-1956). By laying the canvas on the floor, his studio was temporarily transformed into an abstract expressionist's workshop. Rockwell was captivated by the idea of portraying the relationship between conventional and modern art, juxtaposing his own style alongside a work of nonrepresentational art. Standing with his back to us, Rockwell allows the viewer to decide for themselves what they think the museum visitor’s reaction is to this Pollack-like painting, and indirectly so, what their own opinion is.

Photographs are used to document history, however selected images are chosen to do so. Often times these images graphically show the cruelty of mankind. In her book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag asks, "What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?" To acknowledge suffering is just to capture it, to point it out and show somebody else that it exists. In order to protest suffering, there has to be some sort of moral decision that what is shown in the photograph is wrong, and a want from the viewer to change that.

What is a photograph? The simplicity of taking a photograph leads many to ponder its artistic value. Yet, it is undeniable that there are some photos that cause an emotional reaction deeper than simply observing a recorded point in time. Surely, there are photographs that cause more reaction than some modern art pieces. There seems to be two types of photographs. The first classification is the ‘time capture’ photo – an image with the sole purpose of recording a particular event or point in time. The second nature of a photo carries a ‘deeper meaning,’ which has the ability to change the observer’s mood and cause a reaction. But what distinguishes these two varieties? There are a

Acrylic paint is for losers, it could never match with the likes of oil paint. This was a common belief for any artist during the 20th century. Likewise, paint is a complex medium in the realm of visual artist; it always strikes an intricate dialogue within artistic domiciles. Who will survive? Oil paint, the noble, protagonist grease; or Acrylic paint, the economical, underdog wash. Consequently, most creatives argue between the importance of both mediums, but it genuinely relies on the preference of the artist; whatever she or he promotes in consideration of the pigment and drying time, expenses and brands, and “beginners versus professionals” stigmas.