What is a Portrait

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What is a Portrait?
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Why did people have their portraits painted?

• Status symbol

• Keepsake

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What do you look at in a portrait?
Clothes
Hairstyles
Background
Pose
Facial Expression
Colours
Objects or symbols
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What we are going to find out about Portrait
Painting
1. Visual language we will find out how to
describe portraits in terms of

• Composition (background and pose)

• Colour

• Application of paint

• Tone

• Texture

• Pattern

• Contrast

2. We will look at examples of the work of
artists from Europe in the 1600s and France in
the 1800s.
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