Portrait Painting

Portrait Painting

1. Identities and Relationships

   • Arts have helped humankind in understanding their relationship to the natural world.
   • Portraiture; representing one's identity
     • also connects to the interaction/relationship between the artist and the sitter (both contributing to the portraits form and content)
     • this can be shown through the facial expressions pose, clothing, setting, and objects.
       • Telling a story of a person’s life and personalities

2. Orientation in space and time

   • it expresses power and declaring status, making larger statements about society at a given point in history.
     • To signify a person’s importance in society, or being on the higher classes
   • how art changed over the years
     • throughout the years, styles and influences of visual culture from many genres; Cubism, War, Modern Technology, David Hockney, Progression of Photomontage

3. Personal and Cultural expressions

   • “What is the nature and purpose of creative expression?”
     • Throughout history and across cultures, people have shown Interests in faces, by portrait representation.
       • Not just visual representation, also ‘revealing something about the person’.
   • explore our appreciation of the aesthetic
     • the elements of art
       • -ways people use art to preserve and transmit culture
       • -the methods people use to express themselves through art

4. Scientific and Technical Innovation

   • exploring the natural world and its law
     • the ability of art to bring the aspect of nature; to life the painting

5. Globalization and Sustainability

   • Artists have produced environmental and ecologically-based art works that have raised consciousness about the natural world and mitigated environmental problems on a practical level. (Deitch)

6. Fairness and Development

   • Exploring the rights and responsibilities, a portrait painting that shows the relationship between communities, access to equal opportunities, and peace and conflict resolution