portriats - why???
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Why make portraits? Visit the ISB Art History channel (http://vimeo.com/channels/isbarthistorychannel) and my website (http://mountains.brianreverman.com/) for additional resources.TRANSCRIPT
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When we have digital cameras why make a portrait any other way?
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Portraits
A brief survey
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"The aim of Art is to present not the outward appearance of things, but their inner significance; for this, not the external
manner and detail, constitutes true reality. - Aristotle
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In ancient cultures human form was used primarily to portray the supernatural.
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Venus of Willendorf, 20,000 B.C.E.
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Isis/Aphrodite – 2nd century Egypt
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Ancient Egypt
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Egyptian painting from the time of Akhenaton 1353-35 B.C.E.
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Heracles and Athena. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, 480–470 BC. From Vulci
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Belvedere Apollo, Greek 5 B.C.E.
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As civilization grew and people became stable specialists arose as did a ruling or monied class.
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Fayum Mummy Portraits dating from 1st century B.C.E.
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Mughal Empire – 1526 – mid 19th century
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Prince Khurram (Shah Jahan) with his son Dara Shikoh: Leaf from an album made for Emperor Shah Jahan, ca. 1620; Mughal, period of Jahangir (1605–27
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Two gentlemen engrossed in conversation while two others look on, a Chinese painting on a ceramic tile from a tomb near Luoyang, Henan province, dated to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 AD)
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Han Dynasty Painting, 206 BCE – 220 AD
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“Four Generals of Zhongxing” by Southern Song Dynasty artists Liu Songnian (1174-1224).
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The official Chinese court portrait painting of the empress and wife of Song Dynasty emperor Qinzong (1100 – 1161)
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Qin Shi Huangdi - "First Emperor of Qin Dynasty"
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Soon after the French and American revolutions (18th century) the more common man became interested in portraiture. After all, everyone was created equal.
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sillouette
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Robert Cornelius, Self Portrait, 1839
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Vncent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1888
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Vncent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1889
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Vncent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1889
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Henri Matisse, Madame Matisse (the Green Stripe), 1905
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Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso
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M.C. Esher
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Giacometti
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Alice Neel
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Alice Neel
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Ana Mendieta
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Ana Mendieta
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Hannah Wilke
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Hannah Wilke
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Cindy Sherman
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Cindy Sherman
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Cindy Sherman
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Jenny Saville
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Jenny Saville
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Jenny Saville
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Mauruzio Anzeri
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Mauruzio Anzeri
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Mauruzio Anzeri
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Zhang Xiagang
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Zhang Xiagang
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Zhang Xiagang
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Fang Lijun
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Fang Lijun
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Fang Lijun
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Zhang Huan
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Zhang Huan
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Zhang Huan