Since the 1990s artists have also used video to create living portraits. At the same time, photography became the most important medium of traditional portraiture, bringing what was formerly an expensive luxury product affordable for almost everyone. Most of Picasso’s pictures of women, for example, however bizarre, can be identified as portraits of his lovers. Instead artists painted their friends and lovers in whatever way they pleased.
A notable exception was Francisco Goya in his apparently bluntly truthful portraits of the Spanish royal family.Īmong leading modern artists portrait painting on commission, that is to order, became increasingly rare. In this broad cultural survey of the genre, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of. Portraits have almost always been flattering, and painters who refused to flatter, such as William Hogarth, tended to find their work rejected. They have been used to show the power, importance, virtue, beauty, wealth, taste, learning or other qualities of the sitter. Before the invention of photography, a painted, sculpted, or drawn portrait was the only way to record the appearance of someone.īut portraits have always been more than just a record. 1450), a small picture created in gold on black enamel, is seen as the earliest clearly identified self portrait that is a. Portraiture is a very old art form going back at least to ancient Egypt, where it flourished from about 5,000 years ago. Unknown artist, Britain The Cholmondeley Ladies
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