Portrait Painting

Since painting is a very large and widely spread subject. A painting artist may be proficient in one or two genres of painting.

A similar mode is “portrait painting”.

However, like other disciplines, this art also has different aspects and dimensions,

Since we are committed to share the information with authenticity and accuracy, so here in this article we will cover the term “portrait painting “only but as a whole. So that the center idea could be served with full attention.

Portrait painting depicts a person, group of individuals or animals. In other words it’s an artistic representation of a person, animal etc. in which the face and its expressions are predominant part.

Portrait painting is a type of photo but it is not digital or print like today’s photographs but handmade.

In the olden times, until there was no camera or any kind of photography technology, portrait painting was the only way to see and remember one’s face for a long time.

Most of the portrait artists of that time used to do portrait painting sitting in front of the subject.

But with the passage of time, the technique of portrait painting also evolved, the photo and camera were invented.

And this invention also gave a new dimension to portrait painting.

In today’s time subjects do not need to sit or stand in front of the portrait artist to make a portrait painting.

Nowadays portrait artists can make portraits by looking at the printed or digital photograph as a reference subj

Objectives of Portrait Painting 

You must have felt that sometimes we get lost in old memories after seeing an old picture from the old album kept in our house. ,

When we start remembering that time, a living depiction of that old era starts floating on our memory.

By looking at the person’s expressions, dress, place or other objects shown in that picture, we can predict the person’s mood, his time and situation to some extent.

Similarly, by looking at the portrait paintings, people also guess about the old times, as by looking at the dress, the phase of that time can be estimated to a great extent.