Portraiture

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Portraiture
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Portrait in Images

• A painting, photograph or sculpture or other
  artistic representation of a person in which the
  face is a focal point.
• (Gauguin)

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• In Roman culture, realistic unflattering
  portraits were sought out.

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• In the 4th c., Romans began to show an idealized
  version of people in portraits.

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• It wasnt until the Middle Ages that a warts and
  all version of the portrait returned to European
  art.

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How a person is painted is as important as what
they look like
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COLOR Kate Holterhoff Leslie and Chair
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Facial Expression Alice Neel
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Posture Ben Franklin (artist unknown)
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Portraits in Words

• Recalling a particular photograph at home,
  writing about it, then bringing the real
  photograph in and comparing the two.
• Pairing up two or three people and asking them to
  write a portrait of each other in words.