For me, portraits are the most amazing and most difficult artworks in the same time. Amazing because you need a lot of talent to create a good portrait and difficult because you need to do it exactly as your model looks like. Otherwise your portrait might become a caricature or a mockery, which obviously is not what you want.
A couple of years ago I tried to draw some portraits, guided by some YouTube videos. You may think it's easy as you just have to do what it says in the video. Yeah right! I tried, then tried again and what I got was far from what I wanted. However, that was me. Talented artists can work miracles.
At the latest art exhibition I saw a lot of portraits, very different one in stile. It surprised me to see so many portraits (from different artists thought) as it was a private collection.
This is the portrait of Sándor Madaras, the owner of the collection.I was lucky to be in the right place, the right time and hear a conversation between the owner and the journalist interviewing him. The portrait was done years ago, so the owner was a lot younger, but I can assure you, it looks exactly like the man I saw at the gallery. Unfortunately the reflection is ruining the portrait a bit, but even so, I can tell you it's a great one.
This is a portrait made in 1967, it's a lot different from the first one. Unfortunately I don't know the person who's portrait it is, so I'm taking this for granted.
This one came as a surprise. I've never seen such an artwork. It's the auto portrait of the artist, Pál Nagy.
This is a close up photo for you to see, it's made of dots. I suppose it's lithography or a related technique as it did not look like drawing. In any case, it was interesting.
Another portrait of the same artist. In my eyes this is rough art, as far as the lines and colors are concerned, but I like it. I think personal connection to the artist or the subject counts a lot here.
Portrait of Károly Molter, a Hungarian novelist, dramatist, literary critic, journalist and academic. Károly Molter is a know figure, so I can assure you, the portrait looks exactly like the person. It's an interesting technique though, a bit rough, but successful.
Portrait of a young boy. This is pencil on paper, or maybe charcoal as well and it is closer to me than paintings. Maybe because what I've tried so far was pencil on paper. I'm terrible with paint.
Portrait of a peasant boy, a very good one in my opinion. The colors are lovely.
This is a more serious one, a portrait of György Kovács, made in 1978.
The portrait of the wife of the artist. While I was looking at the painting I was thinking about how perfect a portrait has to be. I have no idea about the requirements, I suppose it depends on the taste of the artist and the model. How much tolerance and deviation is allowed.
Same artist, same model, different style. Portrait made in 1975.
Portrait of an actress (ruined by reflection).
So I saved all the portrait for this post. There was one, an exceptional one that I loved and could not take a decent photo of it, no matter where I stood. These are the times when I wish things could evolve so I don't have do deal with reflection, but I suppose it's going to take some time till we get there.
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