ARH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Picture Plane, Brushstrokes, Contrapposto
5 Feb 2018
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The new national image; identity, status, and colonial portraiture pendants: medium- materials, such as oil (which dries slowly and can be thinned with turpentine for an appearance of transparency), etching picture plane- a painting is a plane. Starting in the renaissance, artists began to treat the surface of a painting as a window , and made it appear as if you were looking through a window. Oil as a medium: has been used since, dries slowly, can be thinned with turpentine, allows for transparency . Freake-gibbs painter- john freake; elizabeth freake and baby mary (1671: medium: oil; has some transparency, this artist is untrained- he is self-taught. Many artists of the time learn through looking at other works of art: who: john freake, his wife, and their oldest child, freake is a successful merchant, brewer, and ship owner. In the past, many portraits were done of nobility or clergy figures. Now, many merchants are beginning to commission portraits.
