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•Why do artists make Portraits?•Who for?•How?•The Artist and Model•The Self-Portrait
Summary
People and faces are fascinatingTo study character and physiognomyTo flatterTo analyseTo capture a person in time and placeFor posterity, for history, for political and religious purposesFor patronageA Portrait is uniqueA Portrait is extravagant and luxurious- it’s not instantTo record the artist’s feelings about and relationship with the sitterAn exercise in balancing realism with something else more mysterious?To record time passingNo one has just one face
Why do artists make portraits?
Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516)Italian RenaissancePortrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan c.1501-02.Doge of Venice
Who for?
Detail
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)German Renaissance painter
Self-Portrait at 28, 1500
Who for?
Detail
Who for?
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)AmericanBorn Florence to American parents, trained in Paris before moving to London.
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1892National Galleries of Scotland
Madame X, 1883-84
detail
Technique and Style
How?
Chaїm Soutine (1893-1943)Russian immigrant to Paris
Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & BellboysThe Courtauld Gallery, London, October 2017-January 2018
Bellboy, around 1925
The Little Pastry Cook, 1927
detail
Young Woman in a White Blouse, 1923
detail
Technique and Style
How?
Gwen John ( 1876-1939)Welsh-lived and worked in France for most of her career.
Young Woman Holding a Black Cat, c.1920-25
The Convalescent, c.1918-19
Portrait of Chloe Boughton-Leighc.1910-14
Technique and Style
How?
David Hockney (born 1937)British
David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two Figures),1972, acrylic on canvas. 7x 10 ftSold in 2018 at Christie’s auction house in New York for $90 million (£70 million).
David Hockney, Celia, Carennac, August 1971, Coloured pencil on paper
David Hockney, Gregory, 1978, Coloured pencil on paper
Ann Upton, Christmas 1975
How?
Alice Neel (1900-1984)American
Composition and colour
Hartley, 1966
Hartley with a Cat, 1969
Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia), 1967
Andy Warhol, 1970
How?
John Bratby (1928-1992)BritishFounder of ‘kitchen sink realism’ style in late 1950’s
Method and style
Kitchen, 1965
The Artist’s Ten Year Old Son
Billie Whitelaw, 1967 detail
Paul McCartney, 1967
Paul McCartney, 1967
How?
Christine FrewPortraits-ongoing project,Oil on canvaseach 51x51 cm (about 20x20inches)from 1997 to present
Carolyn
Alice C
Scott
Alice H
Kate
Richard
Drawing and Watercolours
Portraits of portraitsMade using primary and secondary sources.
At the Wedding (SP), 2014pencil and acrylic on board, 13x12 cm.
At the Wedding (SP), 2014,Pencil and acrylic on paper,12 x 9cm.
Ink, watercolour, pencil and acrylic on paper
Ink and watercolour on paper
Pen and ink on paper
Watercolour and pencil on paper
Georgia, by Euan Uglow, 1973Model Georgia Georgallas
The Artist and Model
Family Group, by Celia Paul, 1984-86Models are the artist’s mother and sisters.
The Artist and Model
Head of Jake, by Frank Auerbach, 1997Model Jake Auerbach.
The Artist and Model
George Melly by Maggi Hambling, 1998Model George Melly- musician, broadcaster, writer, lecturerer.
The Artist and Model
Germaine Greer, by Paula Rego, 1995
The Artist and Model
Pastel on paper laid on aluminium, 120x111 cm(about 47 x 43 inches).
Queen Elizabeth II,by Lucien Freud, 2000-2001
The Artist and Model
Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeBorn 1977British painter and writer
The Artist and Model- need one?
Any Number of Preoccupations, 2010
A Passion Like No Other, 2012
In Lieu Of Keen Virtue, 2017
9.30pm Friday, 2016
The Self-Portrait
Jim DineAmerican, born 1935
Painter, poet, sculptor, draughtsman.Associated with Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,Neo-Dada (use of collage and found objects)
The Portrait
Charcoal and pastel, 1984
Old Rider, 2008Acrylic and pastel on paper
On Ardmore Ave, 2009Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper
Paris After Aldo Died, 2009Charcoal and pastel
The Self-Portrait
Lucien Freud,(1922-2011), BritishBorn Berlin
Startled Man, Self-Portrait, 1948Pencil on paper
Hotel Bedroom, 1954
Reflection with Two Children,1965
Self-Portrait, Refection, 2002
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946)FinnishExpressionism, Realism, Naturalism
The Self-Portrait
Pencil on paper, around 1880.
1884 (aged 22)
1912 (aged 50)
Unfinished Self-Portrait, 1921(aged 59)
Self-Portrait with Palette, 1937(aged 75)
Red spot, 1944 aged 82
1945
Self-Portrait, Light and Shadows, 1945(aged 83)
The Last Self-Portrait, 1946charcoal on paper
