Not exact matches
As I started to think of the works less and less as
portraits,
other questions started to come up and
other things started to interest me more about the actual nature of the painting itself and what that did to the
subject rather
than what the
subject did to the painting.
I can think of few
portraits in which a painter's absolute dislike of her
subject is made more apparent
than in the hatchet job she did on the great poet, curator and critic Frank O'Hara, whose liver - spotted bald head, bared teeth, and mad staring eyes are visible in no
other portrait or photo of him I know.
[20] Often working independently of each
other and with widely different starting points, these original photorealists routinely tackled mundane or familiar
subjects in traditional art genres — landscapes (mostly urban rather
than naturalistic),
portraits, and still lifes.
Two of the most simple pieces - Hartley and Richard,
portraits of her sons - are also the most intimate, with the
subjects appearing as less self - conscious
than others.
Portraits, more
than any
other kind of photography, require you to engage with your
subject.
Rather
than simply using it for a
Portrait Mode - like function, where the background of a
subject is blurred for a cool DSLR effect, Motorola is also offering a wide - angle mode, like LG's V30 and G6, and a few
other neat tricks.