#hand details

[burguesinh4]

Estilo é a maneira mais silenciosa de nos expressarmos. Às vezes, um look não é apenas sobre aparência, mas sobre o que a gente quer dizer sem dizer uma palavra. ✨

[nostalgicacademia]

Art details - Hands.

[cavaliernoir]

[fatchance]

Hand Studies: Details of hands from portraits in the collections of the Phoenix Art Museum. To me, hands are often the most powerful and expressive feature in portraiture. As a photographic subject I enjoy the effect of isolating the subjects’ hands from the broader context of a painting or sculpture.

Please click any photo in the set for enlarged views.

1. Thirty Minutes for Lunch / Lew Davis / 1936.

2. Portrait of Nito / Peter Hurd / 1961.

3. A Cellist / Antoine Vestier / 1788.

4. Spring Flowers / Julius Stewart / 1890.

5. The Singer Rose Renault / Antoine Vestier / 1791.

6. Saint Bernard Receiving the Blood of Christ and the Milk of the Virgin / Anonymous / 18th Century.

7. Taos Indian Chanters with Drum / Ernest Martin Hennings / ca. 1935.

8. Nuestro Señor el Desollado / Paul Pletka /  2004.

9. Colonel Lord Howden / Thomas Clement Thompson / 1823.