Over the break I'm asking that you take a half-hour of time to watch another in the series "Art Through Time" and then answer a few questions regarding its ideas after the viewing.
Portraits (Art Through Time)
Introduction
Throughout history and across cultures, people have shown a facination with faces, and in turn, with portrait representation. Tghe depiction of an individual likeness is about identification, butmore than that, it is a record of an interaction between an artist and a sitter, both of whom contribute to the portrait's form and content.Far from being mirror reflections, portraits are complex constructions of identity that serve a range of functions from expressingpower and declarign status to making larger statements about society at a given point in history.
Questions to answer:
1. Of the portraits featured in theprogram, which show concern for naturalism and which are concerned with other ideas?
2. How did the nineteenth century invention of photography, and subsequent technological developments such as moving images in film and video, or digitized images, affect the way artists created portraits?
3. How do artists useiconic symbols to convey images of power and/or status in their portraits? Which symbols are universal, and which are specific to a particular culture?
4. What do portraits of Gertrude Stein, JFK, and Ronald Fischer (Beekeeper) reveal about the relationship between the subject and the artist?
5. In Kehinde Wiley's portraits, contemporary males are depicted in poses frompaintings created in an earlier era. What is he trying to convey?
The link to the video which is the epsiode on Portraits is:
http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/9/index.html
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