Summary
•Why do artists make Portraits? •Who for? •How? •The Artist and Model •The Self-Portrait Why do artists make portraits?
People and faces are fascinating To study character and physiognomy To flatter To analyse To capture a person in time and place For posterity, for history, for political and religious purposes For patronage A Portrait is unique A Portrait is extravagant and luxurious- it’s not instant To record the artist’s feelings about and relationship with the sitter An exercise in balancing realism with something else more mysterious? To record time passing No one has just one face Who for?
Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) Italian Renaissance Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan c.1501-02. Doge of Venice
Detail Who for?
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) German Renaissance painter
Self-Portrait at 28, 1500
Detail Who for?
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) American Born Florence to American parents, trained in Paris before moving to London. Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1892 National Galleries of Scotland Madame X, 1883-84 detail How?
Technique and Style
Chaїm Soutine (1893-1943) Russian immigrant to Paris Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & Bellboys The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 2017-January 2018
Bellboy, around 1925
The Little Pastry Cook, 1927 detail Young Woman in a White Blouse, 1923 detail How?
Technique and Style
Gwen John ( 1876-1939) Welsh-lived and worked in France for most of her career. Young Woman Holding a Black Cat, c.1920-25
The Convalescent, c.1918-19 Portrait of Chloe Boughton-Leigh c.1910-14 How?
Technique and Style
David Hockney (born 1937) British David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two Figures),1972, acrylic on canvas. 7x 10 ft Sold in 2018 at Christie’s auction house in New York for $90 million (£70 million). David Hockney, Celia, Carennac, August 1971, Coloured pencil on paper David Hockney, Gregory, 1978, Coloured pencil on paper Ann Upton, Christmas 1975 How?
Alice Neel (1900-1984) American
Composition and colour Hartley, 1966 Hartley with a Cat, 1969 Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia), 1967 Andy Warhol, 1970 How?
John Bratby (1928-1992) British Founder of ‘kitchen sink realism’ style in late 1950’s
Method and style Kitchen, 1965 The Artist’s Ten Year Old Son Billie Whitelaw, 1967 detail Paul McCartney, 1967 Paul McCartney, 1967 How?
Christine Frew Portraits-ongoing project, Oil on canvas each 51x51 cm (about 20x20inches) from 1997 to present Carolyn Alice C Scott Alice H Kate Richard Drawing and Watercolours
Portraits of portraits Made using primary and secondary sources. At the Wedding (SP), 2014 pencil and acrylic on board, 13x12 cm. At the Wedding (SP), 2014, Pencil and acrylic on paper, 12 x 9cm. Ink, watercolour, pencil and acrylic on paper Ink and watercolour on paper Pen and ink on paper Watercolour and pencil on paper The Artist and Model
Georgia, by Euan Uglow, 1973 Model Georgia Georgallas
The Artist and Model
Family Group, by Celia Paul, 1984-86 Models are the artist’s mother and sisters.
The Artist and Model
Head of Jake, by Frank Auerbach, 1997 Model Jake Auerbach.
The Artist and Model
George Melly by Maggi Hambling, 1998 Model George Melly- musician, broadcaster, writer, lecturerer.
The Artist and Model
Germaine Greer, by Paula Rego, 1995 Pastel on paper laid on aluminium, 120x111 cm (about 47 x 43 inches). The Artist and Model
Queen Elizabeth II, by Lucien Freud, 2000-2001
The Artist and Model- need one?
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Born 1977 British painter and writer Any Number of Preoccupations, 2010 A Passion Like No Other, 2012 In Lieu Of Keen Virtue, 2017 9.30pm Friday, 2016 The Self-Portrait
Jim Dine American, born 1935
Painter, poet, sculptor, draughtsman. Associated with Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Neo-Dada (use of collage and found objects) The Portrait
Charcoal and pastel, 1984 Old Rider, 2008 On Ardmore Ave, 2009 Acrylic and pastel on paper Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper Paris After Aldo Died, 2009 Charcoal and pastel The Self-Portrait
Lucien Freud, (1922-2011), British Born Berlin
Startled Man, Self-Portrait, 1948 Pencil on paper Hotel Bedroom, 1954 Reflection with Two Children,1965 Self-Portrait, Refection, 2002 The Self-Portrait Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) Finnish Expressionism, Realism, Naturalism Pencil on paper, around 1880. 1884 (aged 22) 1912 (aged 50) Unfinished Self-Portrait, 1921 (aged 59) Self-Portrait with Palette, 1937 (aged 75) Red spot, 1944 aged 82 1945 Self-Portrait, Light and Shadows, 1945 (aged 83) The Last Self-Portrait, 1946 charcoal on paper