Essays about: "A Portrait of the Artist"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words A Portrait of the Artist.

1. 1. Looking at Dorian Gray like Art : The Mirror, The Portrait, and The Ideal

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Laia Sepúlveda Garcia; [2023]
   Keywords : Oscar Wilde; Irish Literature; Portrait; Mirror; Doubled Self; Looking At; Seeing; Perception of the Self; Art and Life; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Characterization; Oscar Wilde s philosophy; Art for Art s Sake ; Apprehension of reality; Semi-art figure; Human-like;

   Abstract : This research delves into the complex themes of perception, art, and self in Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Drawing from Wilde's philosophy of "Art for Art's Sake," the study explores the characterization of Dorian Gray through the perspectives of Lord Henry and Basil Hallward. READ MORE

3. 2. RENAISSANCE PORTRAITS : Pairs in Art and Marriage

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Kristel Thalström; [2023]
   Keywords : portraiture; Renaissance; Italy; marital pendant portraits; fashion; culture; nobility; context; marriage.;

   Abstract : The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine portraits of married couples from the Italian Renaissance. It is a study of how, and why, men and women are portrayed differently even though they are married to each other and painted by the same artist. READ MORE

4. 3. DIOSES EN LA TIERRA E EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DE LA MANCHA : VELÁZQUEZ’S SUBVERSION OF THE HABSBURG MYSTIQUE OF POWER

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Dan Hanqvist; [2023]
   Keywords : Baroque; Siglo de Oro; Portraiture; Diego Velázquez; Philip IV; Naturalism; Subversion; Habsburg Iconography; Political Iconography; Vision; Visuality; Reception; Barroco; Siglo de Oro; retrato; Diego Velázquez; Felipe IV; naturalismo; subverción; Habsburgo; Austrias; Iconografía; Iconografía política; visión; visualidad; recepción;

   Abstract : Sometimes the concrete form and skill of a work of art stand in a non-arbitrary or non-contingent relationship with the social circumstances of its facture. I hypothesise that this form and such skill was used by Diego Velázquez for artistically, socially and politically subversive purposes. READ MORE

5. 4. Still Life Portrait : Contemporary jewelry in the form of still life painting

   University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab

   Author : Tongxin Gao; [2020]
   Keywords : still life; life and death; permanence and impermanence; objects; materiality; jewelry;

   Abstract : This paper presents an investigation in how a jewelry artist understands the life and death, permanence and impermanence of human, objects, and other creatures, by communicating still life in the form of jewelry. I will bring up a fact that death and impermanence have been forgotten by my peers, and use still life and contemporary jewelry to discuss it. READ MORE

6. 5. Alexander Roslin’s Self-portrait 1790 at Malmö Konstmuseum A study of Pigments and Painting Technological Construction

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

   Author : Kristian Andersson; [2015-03-05]
   Keywords : Roslin; Self-portrait 1790; 18th Century Painting Techniques; Painting materials; Analyzing Techniques; False colours; Raman probe; UV-; IR-; X-ray;

   Abstract : This Publication is an in-depth study of an oil painting by the Swedish artist Alexander Roslin (1718- 1793), the Selfportrait 1790, which belongs to the Malmö Konstmuseum in Sweden (inv. nr. MKM 891). Roslin was a very successful portrait painter producing portraits of members of the aristocracy and of many prominent individuals of the time. READ MORE