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Devon Rodriguez was born on April 8, 1996 [1] in the South Bronx to a family of Puerto Rican and Honduran descent. [2] At age 8, he began doing graffiti with his friends [3] but, after being arrested at age 13, he turned his attention to drawing portraits. [4]
Classical Realism is characterized by love for the visible world and the great traditions of Western art, including Classicism, Realism and Impressionism.The movement's aesthetic is classical in that it exhibits a preference for order, beauty, harmony and completeness; it is realist because its primary subject matter comes from the representation of nature based on the artist's observation. [5]
John's Diner with John's Chevelle, 2007 John Baeder, oil on canvas, 30×48 inches. Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
Strict Photorealist painters tended to imitate photographic images, omitting or abstracting certain finite detail to maintain a consistent over-all pictorial design. [9] [10] They often omitted human emotion, political value, and narrative elements. Since it evolved from pop art, the photorealistic style of painting was uniquely tight, precise ...
Of Eakins' later portraits, many took as their subjects women who were friends or students. Unlike most portrayals of women at the time, they are devoid of glamor and idealization. [69] For Portrait of Letitia Wilson Jordan (1888; image link), Eakins painted the sitter wearing the same evening dress in which he had seen her at a party. She is a ...
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Verismo (meaning "realism", from Italian vero, meaning "true") was a 19th-century Italian painting style, or group of styles, related to the contemporary movements using the same name in Italian literature and opera. It may reflect either or both "realist", unglamorous, subject matter, or a style of usually rather loose brushwork, anticipating ...
The drawing is one of the eight individual portrait studies for a group portrait of Thomas More's family preserved in the Royal Collection. [58] Destroyed by fire at the Kremsier Castle ( Czech Republic ) in 1752, [ 59 ] [ 60 ] its appearance is preserved in an annotated drawing by Holbein, now in Kunstmuseum Basel.