Explore what portraiture means in art, how it evolved from ancient Egypt to today, and the many types of portraits artists create across history.
Portraits represent people, either real or imagined, attempting to capture their appearance or essence. Some artists explored the human form and emotions through portraits of loved ones. Others made a living depicting wealthy or important people. And artists like Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh frequently used themselves as models.
The New Criterion: An artist of the portrait as a young man
The selfie is a smartphone-produced version of the self-portrait, which has been a staple of art and photography history since artists first began seeing examining their own images in the mirror. In ...
Wall Street Journal: ‘Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man’ Review: The Paintings and the Parties
The art world of the 1960s was starkly different from today’s resolutely commercial scene. In his memoir “Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man,” Michael Findlay remembers the time before it ...
‘Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man’ Review: The Paintings and the Parties
The Recent Delhi Blasts Have Cast The Arc Lights On Portrait Artists, Who Are Hired By The Police To Draw Sketches Of Suspects. Their Contribution Is Often Key To Solving A Crime, Says Reena Martins ...
Bailly’s Vanitas Still life with Portrait of a Young Painter “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. /What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under ...
The best portrait painters are part artist, part diplomat and part psychologist—and even then, there are no guarantees.