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Portraiture Test

STUDY FOR THE TEST USING THIS VERSIONSlide2

For the Test-be familiar with:

The Reasons People Make Portraits:

In Ancient times:

To remember someone who is gone.To show statusIn the Renaissance:To show someone as being importantIn the Baroque: To give a sense of the inner self….To create a mood or tell a truthTo tell a storyTo exaggerate the qualitiesOf an individual to createAn idealIn Neo-Classical times:commemorate a great individualCreate an ideal for propaganda

In the Romantic period:

exaggerated

the mood

and atmosphere to

communicate

an

idea

Photography in the Modern Era:

To document and/or commemorate a person or people of a certain

time

To

challenge what we assume about a person’s identity

.

To give a more candid sense of a person

20

th

Century Portraiture:

show a truth about a person that cannot be seen by

everyone

consist of symbols that represent an individual

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FOR THE TEST: PLEASE BE SURE YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THE CULTURAL PERIOD OF IMAGES

FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD

FROM THE RENAISSANCE WORLD

FROM THE BAROQUE WORLDFROM THE NEO-CLASSICAL WORLDFROM THE ROMANTIC WORLDFROM THE 20TH CENTURY and be able to ID CHUCK CLOSE AND KEHINDE WILEY FROM MULTIPLE CHOICESlide4

Why do people create portraits?Slide5

FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD

FROM THE RENAISSANCE WORLD

FROM THE BAROQUE WORLD

FROM THE NEO-CLASSICAL WORLDFROM THE ROMANTIC WORLDFROM THE 20TH CENTURYSlide6

Ancient Rome: Imagines and Marriage Portraits

To remember someone who

Is gone.

To show status of peopleStill livingTo create a reality that is

Pleasing to the patronSlide7

Renaissance: Giovanni Bellini

To show someone as being important

Or sacred

To explain ideas through symbols To provide access to the idea of a personSlide8

Renaissance: Mona Lisa by Leonardo

da

Vinci

To tell a story about a personTo give an idea of someone’s PersonalityTo show something about a Person’s family Slide9

The Baroque:

Portraits with

Light and Tenebrism…Slide10

Rembrandt of the Baroque period

To create a mood

that reflects

A person’s state of mindTo give a sense of the innerSelf….To give a truthful view of an Individual’s physical appearanceSlide11

Caravaggio of the Baroque period

To tell a story

with people

Who seem real enough toTouch…To heighten the experienceOf a person’s story throughA dramatic experienceTo exaggerate the qualitiesOf an individual to createAn idealSlide12

CaravaggioSlide13

Neo-Classicism: Portraits that create ideals

Ingres created portraits

That commemorate a great

IndividualHere-he idealizes his ownImageSlide14

David of the Neo-Classical

Portraiture as propaganda for

An emperor…Slide15

Romanticism: Portraits that exaggerated mood or feeling

Gericault painted images

Of people who had mental

Illness…and exaggerated theMood and atmosphere to Communicate an ideaSlide16

Photography: Portraits as Documentation

To document and/or commemorate a person or people of a certain time

A

much faster way to documentThis is a daguerreotype photograph-a portrait of a soldier from the Civil WarSlide17

Early Photography:

Portrait of an Artist

Some of

the early portrait photography went beyond simply documenting and ventured into the realm of fine art- photography as a fine art mediumThis is a portrait of the Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix, take by one of the early innovators of photography Felix NadarPS- the VMFA show Artists as Art: Photographic Portraits ends this Sunday (3/22)! Go see it while you still can! (free admission)Slide18

Photography & Portraiture: Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange

’s photograph

Migrant Mother taken during the Great Depression is an example of a candid photograph.Portraiture in photography can combine fine art and documentation.…and lets not forget emotion! This is a photographic portrait that carries quite a lot of emotional weight.Slide19

Photography & Portraiture:

Conveying Identity

Cindy Sherman

was a photographer who did a lot of staging: she set up very specific environments with the intention of conveying information about the subject’s identity.This photograph is a self portrait which explores identity in relation to gender (more specifically, gender related stereotypes).Portraits, regardless of media being used, can be made with the purpose of representing (an aspect of) the subject’s identity.Portraits can challenge what we assume about a person’s identity.Slide20

Photographic portraits are great, but

what becomes of the way portraits are created using non-photographic media?

For example, how do painters approach the portrait?Slide21

Going Beyond the “Real”

Artists like Van Gogh challenged the notion that portraits had to be as realistically rendered as possible.

Shift in focus:

a portrait does not necessarily have to render a person as realistically as possible.Expressive mark-making can be used to convey emotional/personal information about the subject.Upcoming VMFA Exhibit featuring Van Gogh (Van Gogh, Manet, and Matisse: the Art of the Flower) begins this Saturday (3/21) Slide22

20

th

century: Modern Art (Picasso)

Picasso begged the question: what can a portrait be?

…and

what is an important function of a portrait in this modern age?

…To

show a truth about a person that cannot be seen by everyone

…Slide23

Does a portrait even have

to depict a physical person?

Marsden Hartley’s

Portrait of a German OfficerHartley created this commemorative portrait by painting symbols that represented the deceased.A portrait can include or consist of symbols that represent an individual.Slide24

Chuck CloseSlide25

Kehinde

WileySlide26

VOCAB TO KNOW FOR THIS TEST AS WELL:

Elements and Principles (Fill in the blank)

Properties and steps (Multiple choice)

MULTIPLE CHOICE NEW TERMS:Hue ValueIntensityPortraitPrismacolorComplementaryLocal ColorEmotional ColorTransparentOpaqueSemi-opaque