{"id":1762,"date":"2021-11-12T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2021-11-12T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T05:01:18","slug":"11-11-class-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/12\/11-11-class-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/11 Class Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In today’s class we continued our discussion on portraits. We started with Robert Campin’s Portraits of a Man and a Woman<\/em>. What made this one stand out was its plain black background. Backgrounds done this way were called amorphous backgrounds. It was this type of background that let Campin place an emphasis on the faces with intense close ups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next artist we discussed was Jan van Eyck and his portrait of what is believed to be Cardinal Niccolo Albergati. We were able to use this artwork to see how portraits were painted since it would not be possible to ask the sitter to pose for the painting for hours upon hours. The way they avoided this was through silver point drawings that were done using a literal silver stylus and parchment coated in a specific material that when touched by silver oxidizes leaving marks. They would use these tools to create a sketch of the person and the pose they are in as well as take notes on the different details and colors so that they would be able to paint it later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While van Eyck included a lot of details into his faces, Petrus Christus focused more on expressing the character of his subjects as seen in his paintings Portrait of a Carthusian <\/em>and Edward Grymeston<\/em> where details about their personalities are evident through pose, accessories, and clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We concluded our class today with a discussion on the differences between the Southern\/Italian way of drawing portraits versus the Northern way. The difference was that Southerners aimed to show perfection to the point that they would not draw some features of people in order to get a more perfect looking face. Northerners were more interested in showing reality how it was which is why they aimed to capture every detail of a person realistically in their portraits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s class we continued our discussion on portraits. We started with Robert Campin’s Portraits of a Man and a Woman. What made this one stand out was its plain black background. Backgrounds done this way were called amorphous backgrounds. It was this type of background that let Campin place an emphasis on the faces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11790,"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\/1762"}],"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\/11790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}