why do artists make portraits? who for? the artist and

•Why do artists make Portraits?•Who for?•How?•The Artist and Model•The Self-Portrait

Summary

People and faces are fascinatingTo study character and physiognomyTo flatterTo analyseTo capture a person in time and placeFor posterity, for history, for political and religious purposesFor patronageA Portrait is uniqueA Portrait is extravagant and luxurious- it’s not instantTo record the artist’s feelings about and relationship with the sitterAn exercise in balancing realism with something else more mysterious?To record time passingNo one has just one face

Why do artists make portraits?

Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516)Italian RenaissancePortrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan c.1501-02.Doge of Venice

Who for?

Detail

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)German Renaissance painter

Self-Portrait at 28, 1500

Who for?

Detail

Who for?

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)AmericanBorn Florence to American parents, trained in Paris before moving to London.

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1892National Galleries of Scotland

Madame X, 1883-84

detail

Technique and Style

How?

Chaїm Soutine (1893-1943)Russian immigrant to Paris

Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & BellboysThe Courtauld Gallery, London, October 2017-January 2018

Bellboy, around 1925

The Little Pastry Cook, 1927

detail

Young Woman in a White Blouse, 1923

detail

Technique and Style

How?

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-Leighc.1910-14

Technique and Style

How?

David Hockney (born 1937)British

David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two Figures),1972, acrylic on canvas. 7x 10 ftSold 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)BritishFounder 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 FrewPortraits-ongoing project,Oil on canvaseach 51x51 cm (about 20x20inches)from 1997 to present

Carolyn

Alice C

Scott

Alice H

Kate

Richard

Drawing and Watercolours

Portraits of portraitsMade using primary and secondary sources.

At the Wedding (SP), 2014pencil 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

Georgia, by Euan Uglow, 1973Model Georgia Georgallas

The Artist and Model

Family Group, by Celia Paul, 1984-86Models are the artist’s mother and sisters.

The Artist and Model

Head of Jake, by Frank Auerbach, 1997Model Jake Auerbach.

The Artist and Model

George Melly by Maggi Hambling, 1998Model George Melly- musician, broadcaster, writer, lecturerer.

The Artist and Model

Germaine Greer, by Paula Rego, 1995

The Artist and Model

Pastel on paper laid on aluminium, 120x111 cm(about 47 x 43 inches).

Queen Elizabeth II,by Lucien Freud, 2000-2001

The Artist and Model

Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeBorn 1977British painter and writer

The Artist and Model- need one?

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 DineAmerican, 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, 2008Acrylic and pastel on paper

On Ardmore Ave, 2009Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper

Paris After Aldo Died, 2009Charcoal and pastel

The Self-Portrait

Lucien Freud,(1922-2011), BritishBorn Berlin

Startled Man, Self-Portrait, 1948Pencil on paper

Hotel Bedroom, 1954

Reflection with Two Children,1965

Self-Portrait, Refection, 2002

Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946)FinnishExpressionism, Realism, Naturalism

The Self-Portrait

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, 1946charcoal on paper