The Portrait
“A Portrait! What could be more simple and more complex.
More obvious and more profound?”
Charles Baudelaire - 1859
In this lecture we explored portraits and various types of portraits that can and have been created. There are evidential portraits, wedding portraits, self portraits and mug shots (criminal portraits).
There are painted portraits and there are photographic portraits. In these images there are often subliminal messages or hidden meanings they're composition has always the main focal point which then leads your eye around the image. In some of the paintings you can see that the composition has been changed such as the hand position of “Pope Julius II” painted by Raphael, this was reworked on.
Within my work I am concentrating on me, as a subject for all my subjects. At the start of the project I concentrated upon my eyes as the windows to the soul and also in my land of dreams even though we are not awake we are still seeing images, scenes and lands. Also creating a self portrait in my workshop of sewing upon the machines creating a textiles illustration piece. From here I have expanded further and even in the development of fairies I am using the anatomy of my face to develop my ideas further.