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  2. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Wikipedia

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    Yiadom-Boakye's work consists mostly of painted portraits of imaginary Black subjects. Her paintings are predominantly figurative, with raw and muted colors. The characteristic dark palette of her work is known for creating a feeling of stillness that contributes to the timeless nature of her subjects. [14] Her portraits of imaginary ...

  3. Wikipedia : Historical portraits and pictures

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    Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam by Hans Holbein the Younger. Authentic portraits are ideal, but none exist for the vast majority of historic personalities. Where they exist, authentic portraits, i.e. artistic depictions of a person that purport to provide an individualized, authentic representation of that person's unique looks, based either directly or indirectly on a witness's first-hand ...

  4. Hidden face - Wikipedia

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    There are everyday examples of hidden faces, they are "chance images" including faces in the clouds, figures of the Rorschach Test and the Man in the Moon. Leonardo da Vinci wrote about them in his notebook: "If you look at walls that are stained or made of different kinds of stones you can think you see in them certain picturesque views of mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, broad ...

  5. Fancy portrait - Wikipedia

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    Vanessa, by Millais, 1868, Sudley House, Liverpool, a fancy portrait of Esther Vanhomrigh. A fancy portrait is a portrait of a real or literary character that takes the form of a conventional portrait, but is defined by the fact that its depiction of the character is derived from the artist's imagination rather than any authentic record of the person's appearance.

  6. Charles Emmanuel Biset - Wikipedia

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    The art galleries depicted were either real galleries or imaginary galleries, sometimes with allegorical figures. [14] Interior of an Imaginary Picture Gallery. An example of Biset's work in this genre is the Interior of an Imaginary Picture Gallery (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) dated to 1666. This composition falls into the category of allegorical ...

  7. Cindy Sherman - Wikipedia

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    In addition to numerous group exhibitions, Sherman's work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1982), [75] Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1987), [76] Kunsthalle Basel (1991), [77] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (1995), [78] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998 ...

  8. Cornelis Ketel - Wikipedia

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    Adam Wachendorff, a merchant of the Steelyard, London, 1574. Ketel quickly established himself as a successful painter of portraits in London. Karel van Mander records that Ketel was patronized by the prosperous German Hansa merchants of the Steelyard and that a Force overcome by Wisdom and Prudence commissioned from him and presented to Sir Christopher Hatton introduced him to court circles. [14]

  9. Edmond de Belamy - Wikipedia

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    Edmond de Belamy, sometimes referred to as Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, is a generative adversarial network (GAN) portrait painting constructed by Paris-based arts collective Obvious in 2018 from WikiArt 's artwork database. [1] Printed on canvas, the work belongs to a series of generative images called La Famille de Belamy.