Portraits

bumpy ride?” This quote means people are trying to get facts from people so they know more of the important things. For example, they asked them about facts about camels like where they got them and how many there was. This quote adds to the Dumas portrait and how the child points to herself in it because, the girl looks at herself and she can see how she grew up and how she got to this part of life. This quote also relates to her and her family and their relationship and their community in California

The piece of artwork I chose is a “subliminal portrait” within Todd Art Gallery, by Phillip King. The painting material is acrylic on panel, using a palette of vibrant red, a russet brown-reddish hue, almost-black brown-red, gold and various other hues of brown as well as one portion of blue. The composition is slanted, weighted heavily upon the left side of the canvas. The technique appears to be almost finger-paint in quality, in some places perhaps a palette knife. Though I am not familiar with

The Changing Face of Portrait Photography Flip through the pages of today’s fashion magazines and you will notice a more relaxed, natural looking subject. Compare those images with today’s portrait studios, and you will notice a stiffly posed subject in front of a neutral background. With the latest technology existing in the world of photography, very little has changed from the studios from the bygone era. However, more people are opting for natural portraits of themselves and their family taken

My artwork is a portrait of Max Colley Jr. It is a head and shoulders portrait that has a light blue background fading to dark blue at the bottom. The blue represents Max’s blue eyes, his band called the “Blue Max”, jazz, the “blues”, and his love for the Detroit Lions. In order to create this portrait, I had to start by making an outline of Max’s face. I then added the skin tones, highlights, and lowlights. This was the longest and hardest process of the entire portrait. Once his skin was done,

One of the best Netherlandish Renaissance panel paintings is "The Arnolfini Portrait," by Jan van Eyck. Painted in 1434 on 3 vertical oak panel boards. Its dimensions are 32.4 inches x 23.6 inches; panel 33.3 inches x 24.6 inches. It is on display at the National Gallery in London. It is a full length portrait believed to portray an Italian merchant, Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife. It was painted in 1434, but the wife in the picture died in 1433 Jan van Eyck applied thin layers of translucent

The narrator serves as one of the main characters in “The Oval Portrait”. The story is told through his perspective and we receive the narrative through his limited, controlled viewpoint. He is also unnamed throughout the story. The narrator is wounded when we meet him. The start of the story tells us, “The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air-” (5). Although, the story never

models. After the photoshoot he has hundreds and hundreds images and narrows them down to fifty, fifty go fifteen. He matches them up with historical backgrounds, wallpapers and textiles and they will become the paintings for his show. In Wiley’s Portrait

In my self portrait I created a collage that shows how I went threw a change when I played basketball. The basketball in the middle of my collage is for. When I first started to play basketball I was nervous, but I grew into a more outgoing person. My growth is shown thru the vine around the basketball. The vine is expanding to the edges of the paper because of all the new things I learned. The three skills I’ve learn because of basketball was communication, hard work, and teamwork. All of these

stub- ble…’ Chuck Close uses this metaphor from Gulliver’s Travels to describe the experience of viewing his large scale portraits. From far away they look like identical reproductions of a photograph blown up so large that the information within it becomes overwhelming. The closer you get to it, the more it abstracts itself and becomes unrecognizable. Through his portraits and how they have evolved, Chuck Close engages in various concerns, both personal and those that deal with the movement of

Pablo Picasso is a most influential artist during twentieth-century, and he is the founder of cubism. He had a brilliant life that he was the first artist who ever saw his artwork being collected into the Louvre Collection during the lifetime. It has been found that Picasso has estimates 37,000 artworks. He almost spent his whole life producing artworks, and most of them are famous. His painting style changed all the time. In order to define them, people divided his painting processes into “Blue