Pat Singleton’s thesis: My father wrote his masters thesis on portraiture, photography portraiture in specific, but I think that it will be a useful tool for me, to see the role photography has had in portraiture. He examines the ideas which photo portraits try to convey, and knowing that will help me to understand how the introduction of photography has shaped painting.
The Mask and the Face: the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art By E.H. Gombrich in Art, Perception and Reality: I have not yet finished reading this essay, but I think that it will be useful to my research and to my field work, in that it explores the role of caricature in portraiture. It examines what it is about a face and a painting of that face make it so that we can see likeness between the two. It acknowledges that realism is not always the most effective way to create a portrait, but that exaggeration can often be much more specific to and expressive of the subject of the portrait than realism.
Sketches for Final Portraits:
This is the first sketch I did for one of the portraits.
I was not satisfied with the proportions of the face in my first sketch, so I did this close up of his face, to get it right.
This is my most recent sketch for this painting, and this is the composition which I plan to use for the final painting.
My father wrote his masters thesis on portraiture, photography portraiture in specific, but I think that it will be a useful tool for me, to see the role photography has had in portraiture. He examines the ideas which photo portraits try to convey, and knowing that will help me to understand how the introduction of photography has shaped painting.
The Mask and the Face: the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art By E.H. Gombrich in Art, Perception and Reality:
I have not yet finished reading this essay, but I think that it will be useful to my research and to my field work, in that it explores the role of caricature in portraiture. It examines what it is about a face and a painting of that face make it so that we can see likeness between the two. It acknowledges that realism is not always the most effective way to create a portrait, but that exaggeration can often be much more specific to and expressive of the subject of the portrait than realism.
Sketches for Final Portraits: