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Portraiture in perspective study in the art of portrait paintingby Ranjan Raghuvir Indumati Joshi
I confess that the colour images used herewith are not colour calibrated.
I express my apologies for the same. RANJAN R.I.JOSHI
History : Portrait painting
The oldest known portrait in the world comes from Czech Republic.
It shows a woman face and was made from mammoth ivory and
is about 26,000 years old. Some of the earliest surviving painted
portraits of people, who were not kings or emperors, are the funeral
portraits that survived in the dry climate of Egypt's Fayum district.
These are almost the only paintings from the classical world that have
survived, apart from frescos, though many sculptures survive, and
portraits on coins.
The art of the portrait flourished in Ancient Greek and
especially Roman sculpture, where sitters demanded
individualized and realistic portraits, even unflattering ones.
During the 4th century, the portrait began to retreat in favor of an
idealized symbol of what that person looked like.
(Compare the portraits of Roman Emperors Constantine
I and Theodosius I at their entries.) In the Europe of the Early Middle
Ages representations of individuals are mostly generalized. True
portraits of the outward appearance of individuals re‐emerged
in the late Middle Ages, in tomb monuments, donor portraits, miniatures
in illuminated manuscripts and then panel paintings.
Moche culture of Peru was one of the few ancient civilizations which
produced portraits. These works accurately represent anatomical
features in great detail. The individuals portrayed would have been
recognizable without the need for other symbols or a written reference
to their names. The individuals portrayed were members of the ruling
elite, priests, warriors and even distinguished artisans.[1]
They were represented during several stages of their lives. The faces of
gods were also depicted. To date, no portraits of women have been
found. There is particular emphasis on the representation of the details of
headdresses, hairstyles, body adornment and face painting.
One of the best‐known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da
Vinci's painting titledMona Lisa, which is a painting of Lisa del Giocondo.
The world's oldest known portrait was found in 2006 in
the Vilhonneur grotto near Angoulême and is thought to be 27,000 years
old.[2][3]
THE DEFINITION ON THE INTERNET
Portrait ˈpɔːtrɪt/ noun
1. a painting, drawing,
photograph, or engraving of a
person, especially one depicting
only the face or head and
shoulders.
2. denoting a format of printed
matter which is higher than
it is wide.
You can print landscape and
portrait pages in the same
document
A portrait is
a painting, photograph, sculpture,
or other artistic representation of a
person, in which the face and its
expression is predominant. The
intent is to display the
likeness, personality, and even the
mood of the person. For this
reason, in photography a portrait
is generally not a snapshot, but a
composed image of a person in a
still position. A portrait often shows
a person looking directly at the
painter or photographer, in order
to most successfully engage the
subject with the viewerTHE
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Portrait photography[edit]
Main article: Portrait photography
Portrait photography is a popular commercial industry all over the world. Many people enjoy having professionally
made family portraits to hang in their homes, or special portraits to commemorate certain events, such as graduations
or weddings. Since the dawn of photography, people have made portraits. The popularity of the daguerreotype in the
middle of the 19th century was due in large part to the demand for inexpensive portraiture. Studios sprang up in cities
around the world, some cranking out more than 500 plates a day. The style of these early works reflected the technical
challenges associated with 30‐second exposure times and the painterly aesthetic of the time. Subjects were generally
seated against plain backgrounds and lit with the soft light of an overhead window and whatever else could be
reflected with mirrors. As photographic techniques developed, an intrepid group of photographers took their talents
out of the studio and onto battlefields, across oceans and into remote wilderness.William Shew's Daguerreotype
Saloon, Roger Fenton's Photographic Van and Mathew Brady'sWhat‐is‐it? wagon set the standards for making
portraits and other photographs in the field.
Sharaku: Actor Ichikawa Ebozo as Takemura Sadanoshin, 1794… P1
Roman‐Egyptian funeral portraitof a young boy
Self-portraiture[edit]
Main article: self-portrait
When the artist creates a portrait of him- or herself, it is
called a self-portrait. Identifiable examples become
numerous in the late Middle Ages, but if the definition is
extended the first was by
the EgyptianPharaoh Akhenaten's sculptor Bak, who
carved a representation of himself and his wife Taheri c.
1365 BC. However, it seems likely that self-portraits go
back to the cave paintings, the earliest representational
art, and literature records several classical examples
that are now lost.
Personality type
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the generic aspects of type theory.
For the book by Jung, see Psychological Types.
Personality type refers to the psychological classification
of different types of individuals. Personality types are
sometimes distinguished from personality traits, with the
latter embodying a smaller grouping of behavioral
tendencies. Types are sometimes said to
involve qualitative differences between people, whereas
traits might be construed
asquantitative differences.[1] According to type theories,
for example, introverts and extraverts are two
fundamentally different categories of people. According to
trait theories, introversion and extraversion are part of
a continuous dimension, with many people in the middle.
Definitions
Perspective is the art of drawing so as to give the
effect of solidity and relative distance and size.
Perspective is a word, but also a concept, describing how
things look depending on where things are. Things
that are closer to us always look bigger than they
would if they were far away; a beetle can look
bigger than a bus if the beetle is close enough,
or the bus is far enough away.
Things also appear to change shape depending on
where they are in relation to you (or where you are in
relation to them). A table will look very different
if you are standing on top of it, or sitting on a chair
looking at it, or hiding underneath it. This applies to most
other things.
Try looking at different things from different angles and
distances in order to see how much they appear to change.
We know where things are because of their shape and size.
We don't need to be able to draw, to be good at using our
understanding of space. The only reason anyone can catch
a ball, or kick it, or even find it, is because we are able to
judge where it is, because of how it looks, and how it
seems to change shape and size as it moves.
Even animals are good at perspective, otherwise dogs
couldn't catch sticks.
The problem with perspective is not using it, but using it so
that drawn pictures of things look right ‐ drawing things "in
perspective".
Artists learnt to use perspective a few hundred years
ago. If you look at old paintings ‐ before the
15th century ‐ you will see that most of them are
pictures of things on a flat background. There doesn't
seem to be much space in them. You can see examples
of paintings which have bigger and smaller things in
them before the 15th century, but nothing that
suggests depth or the use of "perspective" as an
art tool. In Italy during the Renaissance,
people started to wonder why things looked the way
they looked, and to wonder how you could make
pictures look more like the world we see around us.
Some artists invented the system that we
call perspective for describing things visually.
We use the same system today, in computer programs
and design, this is because it still looks "right". But it is
only a system for making things seem to look "right". You
can make a drawing look like anything you want, you can
take a picture of anything you want, but every time you
do these things you are telling a sort of lie, because you
are creating an illusion. We know that all drawings,
paintings and photos are really just flat surfaces with
marks on them. Perspective is only a system and some of
the things about it aren't quite "right".
Sharaku: Actor Ichikawa Ebozo as Takemura Sadanoshin, 1794
The portrait on the left is nearly thousand years old and on the right two hundred years. The realistic approach of Greek and Roman whereas emotional aspect of Orient or Asia.
Some of the earliest surviving painted portraits of people, who were not kings or emperors, are the funeral portraits that survived in the dry climate of Egypt's Fayum district.
Schuffenecker’s “Emile Bernard”
Look at these two images and observe the details in the background of main portrait…
Émile Schuffenecker (8 December 1851 – 31 July 1934)
was a French Post‐Impressionist artist, painter, art
teacher and art collector. A friend of Paul
Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first
collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh, Schuffenecker
was instrumental in establishing the Volpini exhibition,
in 1889. His own work, however, tends to have been
neglected since his death—and even worse, recent
season campaigns in the media have reactivated
resentments virulent since the late 1920s, when
Schuffenecker was suspected to have imitated the work
of other contemporary artists, among them, Van
Gogh.[citation needed] Still a contentious issue, it has not
been established whether he produced forgeries.
Meanwhile, serious scholarly research at least has
provided the base for a sober art historical approach to
Schuffenecker's life and work.
220px‐Schuffenecker_self_portrait
This is the self portrait of the artist himself…
250px‐Reproduction‐of‐the‐1805‐Rembrandt‐Peale‐painting‐of‐Thomas‐Jefferson‐New‐York‐Historical‐Society 1
800px‐VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis
Look at these versions…
What is Patterned drawing ? A pattern is meant to copy the defined visual form.
I have been studying head study since my art school days (now four decades in this visual art)
lead me into the world of PORTRAIT PAINTING study. Let me correct if I am wrong I found that
by copying famous artist works or by following some conservative rules in the art academics
without any insights such as we are blindly asked to take ¾ angle, eye level and top spot light
(natural sun light or room light) mostly facing to the left to be arranged for any model. Is not
Patterned drawing ? A pattern is meant to copy the defined visual form. Mostly when many
demonstrations of PORTRAIT PAINTING when viewed one can notice my said observations. Do
we have to strictly follow the definition of PORTRAIT PAINTING ? I am trying to curiously
investigate these myths in next pages. Viewers are welcome to contribute their point of views.
Late Prof.R.P.Joshi
my father always
use to teach me to
study eyes its
highlights and iris
whenever we
discusses about
HEAD‐STUDY or
PORTRAIT
PAINTING. These
are 11 examples of
his work in
plaster,oil,pastel or
water colours.
Unkno
wn Artist U
nknown Artist
On the left two pictures are studio shoot and on the right is actual painting by hand. We can observe the difference between these images.
Look at
these examples which
has redefined the art of
Portrait Painting.
Artist is unknown but the portrait is
extremely expressive. The above eye level
perspective composition creates
immediate dialogue
This skin tone is a challenge to demonstrate in portrait painting or photography.
It’s difficult to find crest shadow, cast shadow, reflected light and highlight in such portrait painting or photography.
Devdatta D. Padekar
Devdatta D. Padekar Unknown Artist
Artist Devdatta is exploring different eye levels with result portraits became animated and interactive. The portrait on the right is bellow eye level more like an illustration saying something to the viewer.
Artist D.T. PADEKAR by Prafull Sawant who has captured the essence of model’s personality in a painterly manner.
Frans Hals the Elder (/hɑːls/;[1] Dutch: [ɦɑls];
c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden
Age portrait painter who lived and worked
in Haarlem. He is notable for his
loose painterly brushwork, and he helped
introduce this lively style of painting into
Dutch art. Hals played an important role in the
evolution of 17th‐century group portraiture.
This artist not only captures the mood but the perfect placement of highlight on the iris and the skin tone.
Mexican artist‐Diego Rivera self portrait
Mexican artist‐Diego Rivera painted this portrait painting as
tribute of forgotten Indian revolutionary patriot Dr. Khankhoje
who became god like figure in Mexico due to his conurbation of
making Mexico self sufficient in Agriculture .
(Ref. “Dr. Khankhoje –nahi chira” by Veena Gavankar in Marathi.)
Mark model looking to the left but eyes gazing to the right.
Unknown Artist
Speed portrait painting by Carol Louis Smith
Interesting to compare these two visuals.
Mark model looking to the left.
Mark model looking to the right.
This is the portrait of
J.WALTER THOMSON
the founder of the
world famous
advertising agency
by the same name.
Artist unknown to me.
Mark model looking to the left but eyes gazing right.
This is the photograph of India’s famous portrait painter
Suhas Bahulkar while demonstrating the portrait
from life. On the top right is his one of the commissioned
portrait painting works of the famous Indian Industrialist
JRD TATA.
On the right top is the Internationally acclaimed India’s portrait artist Vasudev Kamath
seen in his own self‐portrait painting. On the extreme left his world famous portrait from
life. In the middle one of his demonstrations with unusual angle.
Mark model looking to the left but gazing to
the right
Ranjan Raghuvir Indumati Joshi who
tried to interpret the art of
Portraiture in perspective the study in
art of portrait painting in this small
presentation. This does not preach any
theory but trying to curiously know the
subject from different angles. The
formal definitions to out of box
interpretations. ARE YOU INTERESTED
TO JOIN THIS VISUAL QUEST?
Please see next POWER POINT
PRESENTATION PORTRAIT IN
PERSPECTIVE‐RANJAN’S VIEW