Like And Like - Time Series.the Western Portrait

The western portrait has a long history. From the originally attached toreligious paintings exist, to the last detached form an independent kind ofpainting. After a long development process, and gradually form a variety ofgenres and styles.The traditional portrait is mainly for religious services, and rulers. Bythe “imitation theory” and so on the influence of philosophy and the portraitsof the utility and function of record, since the Renaissance until the19thcentury portrait are represent the character facial features as the main means.A portrait of the outstanding and, of course, to get the admiration of people,in addition to “Image” is more important to convey emotion.After the second industrial revolution, the emergence of the camera makesportraits the realistic sense of the mirror is replaced. When portraits the QinMing or set pieces, artists do not go deliberately manifestation of God, religionand God, but starting from the life becomes more preached self, the pursuit ofindividuality, to create a new form of express new content the frenzied personalexperience and choice. They continue to dig the most relevant and mostfundamental thing, even from the form of material life. At this time, the “Image”in portraits has become unimportant, it is important that they expressed. ModernWestern portraiture unprecedented creative works of art to unprecedented heights,and to spare no effort to pursue the purity of the art, highly personalized workswith traditional imagine painting kind of tried to cater to the taste patronwas ordered for the formation of a distinct contrast.After the1960s the people surge in demand for consumer goods of cultureand society as a whole began to enter into the period of development of the popularculture. Liberal political environment, the popularity of higher education, social and wealth accumulation, provides a broad space for the diversificationof Western contemporary art. Mixed contemporary portraiture “Image” and“Elephant” both purely mechanical tracing did not express any emotion,thinking on contemporary human spirit we can not say more biased in favor ofwhich one, but I think contemporary portraiture. era where people want tostitching, it is more of an individual in the form of self-experience andpersonalized down the expression of the people’s plight and spiritual doubts.