Art of Portraiture
KEY VOCABULARY
- abstraction -
- bust - a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure, including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast
- commemorative - acting as a memorial or mark of an event or person
- conceptual-
- cubism-
- Grand Manner portraiture-
- idealism - (in fine arts) - treatment of subject matter in a work of art in which amental conception of beauty or form is stressed, characterized usuallyby the selection of particular features of various models and theircombination into a whole according to a standard of perfection.
- realism - the tendency to view or represent things as they really are
- symbolism-
- selfie-
- tronie - head and shoulder study, in which the model plays a role or expresses a particular emotion
- Neo-Classicalism-