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"Портрет вице-адмирала" 100х70sm. Oil on canvas
The image of the person in painting In painting there is a number of portrait sketches where the artist has hardly planned the face and nevertheless the person can be recognized.
If we get a closer look we shall get accustomed to the person of any person we will notice that in more cases is not quite symmetric: one eye is a little smaller than another one, the second is open wider, it is blinked, one eyebrow is hardly higher, another a little lower. The sum of noticed details makes that look which defines similarity. The portraitist should aspire to represent not only external similarity, and the character of those he paints, his psychology, all the completeness of the human personality. Ability to see and express
on the canvas or paper all these distinguishes of one person from another, to show in a portrait the most important - character and psychology
of the person - is given not to much. The artists working on a portrait - thousand, and real portraitists - tens.
It is possible to name masterpieces of portrait art such products where the artist manages to find and express in particular
person features inherent in many people.
The portraitist should have absolute skill demanding an enormous voltage,
Of the trained eye and confidence of a hand. The slightest miss in thickness of a line already breaks similarity.
The portraitist should be colorist. Each face has its own color, a shade of a skin, from marble-white up to
swarty - brown. To transfer a narce-gentle skin of the child, the matte person, a gentle colour, the purple-red person of the drunkard,
healthy sunburn of the farmer, the athlete etc. can only colorist.
The portraitist should know the composition that is able to arrange on a canvas a figure in such characteristic and plastic wiev, among the details or without them that taken all together would reached the spectator in the more expressive way
Art critic, Nekrilova Luiza
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The portraits of the militarians
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