Single portrait paintings

Single portrait

A popular genre of art is always an individual portrait, through which the artist conveys character, unique features of a particular model. A true master achieves an external resemblance, shows the individuality, inner, spiritual world of man. The gallery presents canvases of famous Ukrainian artists, made in different techniques.

History of the portrait genre

The portrait genre originated in the art of the ancient world. Greece has found several murals with female portraits.

Interesting are Egyptian paintings of 1-4 centuries AD. These images were used for ritual purposes - they were placed with the dead in the tomb.

In the Middle Ages, the church was the main buyer of canvases, so artists created images of mostly religious orientation.

In the Renaissance, the portrait genre is gaining popularity. The shackles of religion were weakened, people believed in the power of personality, which was reflected in the portrait - images filled with intelligence, harmony, a sense of freedom.

In the 17th century the greatest heights were reached by Dutch portraits. Painting technique is improving - new techniques of light transmission are being created, which changes the genre and makes portraits with people more realistic.

Since the mid-19th century, portraits in the style of realism, modernity have appeared.

Popular techniques for writing individual portraits

Techniques of performing a portrait:

1. Oils.
2. Dry brush.
3. Watercolor.
4. Pastel.
5. Pencil.
6. Pen.

The most popular oil painting, creates vivid, relief images. In the style of execution, oil paintings can be very different. Pasty techniques in the style of impressionism are often used when paint strokes are clearly visible, for example, on the canvases of contemporary Ukrainian artists Natalia Bahatska, Kateryna Kulish.

Multiple drawing (detailing) techniques are also used to make the pictures resemble photographs. Such pictures are closest to the style of hyper-realism or photorealism.

A striking example of a contemporary female portrait is the canvases of the Ukrainian artist Olena Kondratiuk, who delicately senses the female soul and imparts it to the colorful images of girls and women.

Popular individual portraits of pastels that attract the viewer with freshness, purity, liveliness. Pastel drawings have a characteristic velvety, deep surface. Pastel technology is more subtle in color. Mixing strokes, imposing many colorful layers, it is possible to achieve the effect of shimmer observed in the paintings of contemporary Ukrainian artists Irina Klyba and Maryna Dobrovolska.

Light, airy portraits, made in the technique of "dry brush" and pencil.