During class we solidified our knowledge on portraiture using class examples. We observed many different angles, backgrounds, and filters, all adding their own individuality to the image. I enjoyed the different ways we all interpreted the selfie assignment and discussing random moments in each of our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After our class seflies, we went into Renaissance portraiture. We discussed Campin’s A Portrait of a Man and a Woman <\/em>which displayed a true portrait. It is amorphous, meaning it has no background making the focus solely on the facial features of the figures. We also talked about silverpoint drawing which is a mode of painting where you use a pointy silver stylus of sorts and then draw on a parchment cured with a material that oxidizes. Van Eyck used this mode of painting though it creates a fragile piece that doesn’t store well . We also looked at Weyden’s take on portraiture. He wanted to capture the personality of the people he painted rather than just paint them, like van Eyck often did. Many times, Weyden’s figures don’t look straight on at the observer. He also takes advantage of what they are wearing and the perspective of the observer compared to the placement of the figure, all adding to the status of the figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During class we solidified our knowledge on portraiture using class examples. We observed many different angles, backgrounds, and filters, all adding their own individuality to the image. I enjoyed the different ways we all interpreted the selfie assignment and discussing random moments in each of our lives. After our class seflies, we went into Renaissance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}