portrait [Theme] Page 1

The credibility of oil painting makes the viewer believe that he is very close to depicted on the foreground of the image objects (can literally touch them). If it shows the person such proximity implies a certain degree of intimacy.
However, the official portrait is intended, on the contrary, to stress the distance. That is why (and not because of lack of skill from the artist) person on the average portrait, painted in the traditional way, looked so constrained and motionless. This artificiality is rooted in the requirements of the image: the object needs to be seen both near and afar. You can draw an analogy with samples examined under a microscope. Here they are in front of us, we can study them, but you can't imagine the same way they treated us.

His psychological profile in a nutshell: just greedy!

Is that me?
Depends on whether you like it or not.
Well, it is very beautiful.
- Yes, that's you.
What if I said I didn't like it?
- Well, it would still be you, only I'd feel like an idiot.
- I can't believe Stewart rolls up to the penny.
- It is necessary urgently to learn to draw!

As a rule, successful socialite, not yet caught in the iron millstone evil fate, on the face always a mask of an emotional coldness.

Oh, what a smart look at this boob.