Portrait Study

Portraits in the West have a long artistic tradition,handed down to leave a lot of excellent work and the portrait painting portraits theory.Whether the Central and Western, traditional portraits are derived from the practical purpose.Early portraits of the main functions of the rulers and religious services for the education tool,was developed primarily for realist portrait landscape pictures to write a real person,request the relationship of form and spirit has both.Portraitists portrait drawing are traditional means of livelihood.Sixteenth and seventeenth century portraits of Chinese and Western art almost in the same period in history to reach the most prosperous stage.The emergence of the camera,portraits," realistic "practical function is replaced by photography,portraits,or a imperial command is no longer the case,but the pursuit of human nature and self,beyond the natural and spiritual world to explore and create,to become artists seized the opportunity to play,free creative expression of the media,is a personal experience and choices.At present,both at home and abroad created a portrait for a wide range of situations.Based on the portraits of Chinese and Western history and the academic literature on the art of the portrait on the card,explained a comprehensive portrait than from the general character of the "no my habitat" to the personality than the common "are in my territory," the occurrence of development trajectory, which in turn created portraits of China's current state of diversity on the analysis,with a view of art there is a portrait of profound understanding of a comprehensive and systematic,and creative portrait of today can play a valuable reference.The full text is divided into the following sections:First,"no my territory" - the traditional art of portraiture,(a) traditional portraits in the West,(b) traditional portraits in China;Second,"there is my territory" -portraits Conversion of modern art;Third,present a wide range of portraits created in China.