well it is the beggining of the 4th week and im sitting in the base room as i arrived at Uni very early due to having to get the early train this morning, i decided to use this spare time to my advantage and get working on this essay.
i have done research by browsing various websites which i shall post a few links to at the bottom of this blog.
from the research i have done i have found that portraiture or portraits are artistic representations of a person in which the face and its expression is predominant, this is captured in a painting, photograph, sculpture or other form.
the purpose of a portrait is to display the likeness, personality and even mood of the person in the portrait.
when an artist tries to capture the likeness, personality and mood of one-self the image is called a self portrait. examples of self portraiture became numerous around the late middle ages but the first self portrait was by the Egyption Pharoah Akhenaten's sculptor Bak, who carved a self portrait representing himself and his wife.
portrait photography has now become the main priority when it comes to family portraits which many families enjoy having professionaly made to hang in thier homes, special portraits to commemorate certain events such as graduations and weddings are also very popular. since photography was invented portraits have become a popular commercial industry all over the world. This massive popularity in the middle of the 19th century was due to the large demand for inexpensive portraits which studios sprang forth in cities around the world, some studios making up to 500 plates a day, maybe more.
well this was part of the research i have found and so im going to leave it at that for today, i will write up more later hopefully, gonna work on my portrait image a bit more, signing off
bye
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559633/portraiture.html
http://www.artspan.com/portraiture
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