a study by ranjan joshi

1. Portraiture in perspective study in
art of portrait painting
by 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
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. PART‐3

2. 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.

3. 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 titled moan 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
Look at this
transition
during 27000
years…

4. THEDEFINITIONONTHEINTERNET
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 isa 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 viewer

5. What do you
think about
this portrait
gallery ?

6. The original photograph of Abraham
Lincoln and
my pencil drawing copying done in 1970
when I was 20 years old.

7. Abraham Lincoln and Ram
Manohar Lohia
my pencil drawings copying
done in 1970 when I was 20
years old. Melancholy is seen
in the eyes of Lincoln. On the
left is fiery Indian nationalist
political leader Ram Manohar
Lohia, look at the eyes spark
of rebellion.

8. This is my
another pencil
drawing done
from the b/w
press photo in
1970 when I
was just 20
years.

9. 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's What‐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

10. 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.

12. 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".

14. 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".

16. My farther
Late Prof. R.P.Joshi artist and
art educationist. These are
the images of his work: on
the top he is doing
landscape at Elora caves, oil
paint portrait of his father
done from old photo and his
portrait sculpture from life,
which was casted in plaster
of Paris for him by the friend
sculptor Shirsat. At the
bottom is son of Late Prof.
R.P.Joshi and my younger
brother fine artist,sculptor
MR.CHARUDATTA R. JOSHI
who has done live portrait of
our father Late Prof.
R.P.Joshi seen next to his
photograph. This is rare
genetic chain in visual art.
This is artist late Prof. R.P.Joshi and his work.
Born: 12th March, Died: 19th May 1987.

17. G ra n d s o n R a n j a n Fa t h e r R A G H U V I R G ra n d fa t h e r P R A B H A K A R
Grandson Ranjan Father RAGHUVIR Grandfather PRABHAKAR all JOSHI. Artist Padekar’s sculpture of RANJAN JOSHI, Sculptor brother
CAHRUDATTA’s work of R.P.Joshi and Artist R.P.Joshi’s work of his father PRABHAKAR R Joshi this is rare collection.

18. Mark all models looking to the left.
Prize winning entry at the famous Dashara Exhibition of Karnataka
”Portrait from the life of his student Prof. Kalele”, next is
commissioned portrait work of German Priest in oil and oil paint
portrait of his famous artist friend M.S.Joshi. R.P.Joshi never claimed
to be a master painter. He knew his limitations as portrait artist.

19. This is his last oil paint
portrait painting done
from reference
photo.(1979)
These are the portraits done as demo, top all and bottom right in water colour
and bottom two left in oil paint. Mark all models looking to the left.

20. 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.

22. Late Prof. R.P. Joshi ‘s live painting in pastel on granular surface by ARTIST D.T. PADEKAR

23. Ranjan joshi by ARTIST D.T. PADEKAR

24. My book cover self‐portrait inspired from Vincent van Gogh impressionist style. Here I tried to
also take a clue from the famous Dutch’s artist M. C. Escher.

25. It’s difficult to find crest
shadow, cast shadow,
reflected light and highlight
in such portrait painting or
photography.

28. Do you see any colours
after gazing portrait shown
bellow for at least
3 minutes then
concentrating on the white
space on the right?

29. These are not
complete works of
portrait painting but
first stage of the
sketches that could
transformed into final
work. Mark both
models looking to the
left. Clockwise:
Vidya by Ranjan Joshi,
Ranjan by Vidya Joshi
and Ranjan‐father by
son Aditya Joshi age
14 complete.