6. Pamela Bennett
If portraiture freezes a moment in time forever, why paint? Why not use
photographs? This is a huge black and white painting, not a photograph.
What does the media - and the size - do to our perception of a 'portrait?'
7. For 30,000 years in Paleolithic caves, the face was taboo (there are
no faces in the caves).
10. This is a detail
of a larger
painting.
Renaissance
artists often
included their
own portraits
in larger work.
Self-portrait by
Botticelli
(1476).
11. Rembrandt did 80 self-portraits, using them to explore technique
(lighting & texture), as well as theatrical characters.
12. Jan Van Eyck in 1433 –
he asserts his
authorship, his idea and
voice; not a mere
craftsman anymore,
Renaissance artists
made new claims for
their art.
13. 'Self-portrait in a hat'
In this assignment -
hats can give you
costume and a
shadow across your
eyes.
Keiko Randolph
15. Frida Kahlo focused on self-portraits to explore dream, identity, and the
imagination.
16. Each student selects a master to study in pastel and then the student does a
self-portrait in the style of the master just studied. (Joy Stroehmann)
19. Models pose in most
classes.
Here is a portrait of
the model with
imagined
background (the
sea).
In portraiture,
clothes are
important too, they
say a lot about
character.
Minh-son Dang
27. Van Gogh before and after. He started the study of drawing as an
adult, worked hard at it for years. Above we see his progress after
the first 18 months.
45. The skull in 3/4 view
(the view in which you
most often see it in
life).
Directional light from a
single source helps to
define the planes of
the skull.
Otto Dix, 1913
63. Variety of line = "beauty"
'Searching line' - draw and
redraw until you find what
you want - this is what the
masters did.
In this Leonardo drawing,
the baby's legs are drawn
several times.
Leonardo
64.
65. Variety of line = "beauty"
fast/slow
thick/thin
light/dark
Leonardo
66. Variety of line = "beauty"
fast/slow
thick/thin
light/dark
What does the line say about
character in this self-portrait?
Complexity and strength!
Jerry Giefer
72. Blind contour drawing is drawing without looking at the paper, an
exercise to build sensitivity to pressure and speed, creating more
variety of line (and beauty).