Portraits

Mon 7th Jan, 2008

I myself am quite the portrait lover, for different reasons. They tell you alot about a person, give you insight into another's life. Portraits can make you question personalities, and so forth.

How do you define a portrait?

What do you like about portraits?

Comments & discussion:

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I dont know they are just good hey? Personally i love Van Gogh's, in fact i love anything of his, so maybe thats a bit bias hehe. My teacher taught me that if you ever want to get someones attention with art just paint eyes, because no matter what humans are always drawn to eyes, and if its in art thats where you'll always look first. try it, its freaky as even when ur not trying to do it.

anyway... how that would relate in is because portraits have eyes, so we just can't help but stare at em'

also, they are much cooler when they are self portraits because they offer a small glimpse into that persons mind about how they feel about themselves and the world around them.

also. the best portraits i think are done by those artists that are a little bit... strange.. resulting in controversial type paintings eg. brett whiteley, Frida Carlo, van gogh.

also, yes i have even more to say :P is that portraits are like a time portal, you can find out a lot about the place, the people and the type of world it was by studing portraits.

enough from me, that was like an essay.

Shanny.