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Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. [1] A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. [ 1 ]
In arts, a portrait can be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a ...
An asana (Sanskrit: आसन, IAST: āsana) is a body posture, used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga. [1] The term is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'seat'. While many of the oldest mentioned asanas are indeed seated postures for meditation , asanas may be standing , seated, arm-balances, twists, inversions, forward bends ...
In photography, bokeh (/ ˈ b oʊ k ə / BOH-kə or / ˈ b oʊ k eɪ / BOH-kay; [1] Japanese:) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image, whether foreground or background or both. It is created by using a wide aperture lens.
Portrait of Dr Gachet with Pipe, May 1890 etching, 18 cm × 15 cm (Van Gogh's only etching) There is a second version of the portrait which was owned by Gachet himself. In the early 1950s, along with the remainder of his personal collection of Post-Impressionist paintings, it was bequeathed to the Republic of France by his heirs. [21] [22]
An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose, [1] and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.
Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.
A painting by Parmigianino in 1524 Self-portrait in a mirror, demonstrates the phenomenon. Mirrors permit surprising compositions like the Triple self-portrait by Johannes Gumpp (1646), or more recently that of Salvador Dalí shown from the back painting his wife, Gala (1972–73). This use of the mirror often results in right-handed painters ...