Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on. Until, in 1908, Gabriel Jonas Lippmann won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of creating color in a photo in just one single process using a color-sensitive film coating, or emulsion, on top of a glass plate. Portraits aux crayons de couleur - YouTube 0:00 / 1:05 Portraits aux crayons de couleur 10,324 views 40 Dislike Share Save Corinne Portraits 492 subscribers Page Facebook. Still, plate methods were complicated, drawn-out processes that yielded less than ideal results. Louis Ducos du Hauron used a similar technique to create a famous colored landscape photo of southern France in 1877, named View of Agen.Īutochrome Lumière, created by Auguste and Louis Lumière at the start of the 1900s, was another long-exposure color photography technique that used “autochrome plates” coated with tiny dots of multicolored starch, instead of just one color. For this famous photo of a tartan ribbon, Sutton used a three-color method invented by physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who realized that the perception of all colors in an image could be created with a several-step process of taking multiple images through three colored glass plates: red, green, and blue. Finally, from post war till today, with the generalized abandonment of the figurative art, artists experiment increasingly with abstraction to the detriment of portrait painting.Thomas Sutton created the first color photograph in 1861. Nevertheless, few artists are going to continue it, breaking with naturalistic portrait for a more suggestive representation (Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and Picasso for example). The XIX°s sees the appearance of the photography which allows a faithful representation of the subject, Pictorial genre of the portrait shall be abandoned little by little.

A more psychological approach of the portrait is born. Portrait is going to meet its golden age, it is no more a simple representation of a subject, the artists integrate the notions of sensibility and intimacy with the multiplication of family and childood. Portrait art is going to boom, to be favored in the XVIII°s European art. One of the most known portraits is the one painted by Léonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa - La Joconde (1503-1505/1507, Musée du Louvre), wife of a rich Florentine silk trader, her famous mysterious smile made it one of the most symbolic works of western art history. Afterward, this pictorial genre shall enjoy a large distribution in court, amongst noble persons but is also going to adress the bourgeoisie in Flanders, in Italy, in France … The portrait is going to serve as official representation but also as laic and private testimony. Thus the portrait sets itself up as an autonomous genre. But really the first autonomous portrait on canvas is Jean le Bon's portrait (cerca 1360, Musée du Louvre in Paris) where he is represented in profile, pose inspired by coins. The commisionners are represented in religious compositions. It is from the XIV°s, in paint, that the genre of the portrait shall develop in the aristocratic circles. The first expressions of portrait paintings were found in the region of Fayoum ( Egypt), naturalistic portraits painted with wax polish in II ° and III ° ad JC. Portraits are considered valuable testimonies of time, as important documents of the State, of families and souvenirs. Then, portrait spread to all social classes, it is not rare anymore to commission portrait of family or friends. Historically, the portrait was reserved to a social class, that of the rich and powerful. The painting of portrait is a pictorial genre, showing a human subject, an imitation of its visual appearance, we speak then of mimesis.

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