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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer, of Ghanaian heritage. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, which are painted in muted colours.
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 ...
Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists.His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense ...
The artist calls her own works "imaginary portraits, dealing with the idea of childhood" [4] Her portraits are not portraits in the conventional sense, but rather constructed ones. "I make the person my own. A portrait allows the artist, as well as the viewer, the chance to mirror themselves in the other and to reflect on their own existence."
Imaginary Portraits of Richard Wagner's Heroes, Bayreuth Festival, 1975. The Grandes Soirées of the French Comedy, Galerie Proscenium, Paris, 1980. Osram Gallery, Munich, 1982. The Barocco Opera House, Galerie Proscenium, Paris, 1982. Clayette - Engravings, Denon Museum, Châlon-sur-Saône, December 1983 - January 1984.
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.
Vetluguin published a book of essays, Heroes and Imaginary Portraits, the book The Afterlives, and the novel Notes of a Scoundrel: Moments in the Life of Yuri Bystritsky (Berlin, 1922). Life in the United States