Essays about: "portrait painting"

Found 5 essays containing the words portrait painting.

1. 1. Photographic Portraits of Sculptors at the turn of 1900

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Olga Grinchtein; [2023]
   Keywords : portrait of sculptor; photographic portrait;

   Abstract : The goal of the thesis is to investigate the importance of photographic portraits of sculptors at the turn of 1900 in history of sculpture, photography and portrait art. Impact of the portrait of sculptor in painting on the photographic portrait of sculptor and other way around is analyzed in the thesis. READ MORE

3. 2. 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

4. 3. Portraits of Sculptors in Modernism

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Olga Grinchtein; [2021]
   Keywords : portrait painting; portraits of sculptors;

   Abstract : The portrait of sculptor emerged in the sixteenth century, where the sitter’s occupation was indicated by his holding a statue. This thesis has focus on portraits of sculptors at the turn of 1900, which have indications of profession. 60 artworks created between 1872 and 1927 are analyzed. 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