My entry for Photography Lovers Contest- Portrait
Mother and child is one of my favorite themes in art. It will be the theme for the last #ArtTalk series of 2020.
My wonderful friend Sandra with her first child. There is such a sweet connection between a mother and child. We all want connection in our lives. Seeing and sensing this mother and child bond is something precious.
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Most of us think of portrait as being of the head and shoulders and the person looking right at the camera.
According to the definitions of portrait below this picture of Sandra and her little girl portrays something about them; their essence, personality and mood. We also feel connected to them for our shared experience.
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. 1
Each portrait is thus meant to express individual identity, but as Erwin Panofsky recognized, it also “seeks to bring out whatever the sitter has in common with the rest of humanity” 2