A creative journey since the first portrait known to man, as recorded and documented up to this moment, by “Themistocles”, the most prominent Greek soldier, and it is considered the first painting in history, all the way to portraits today, where the pictures are taken from the lens of the smart phone, which people take for themselves each Moment and occasion, to explain the importance of portraiture in our human history? How was it made? And was it like today, when photoshop is manipulated in the features of the face, to appear more beautiful, and a higher ideal, for most groups of people.
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Throughout the history of portraiture and its origins, the well-known origin of it from a historical point of view is undoubtedly documentation, but from a technical point of view, the features took different directions, to prevail the internal expressions of the face and identity, and the criminal investigations benefited from that, to implement justice during the drawing of the face, after Describing a mysterious person who committed a crime, as we find it indispensable in art, as in science, medicine and literature, to highlight the importance of knowing the external physical characteristics by entering into the essential ones, through explicit expressions, drawing, sculpting, or photography… so the person’s mood and character appear, Hence, his behavioral reference, especially through the head and face.
There are university majors concerned with looking at the drawn body or the image, and perhaps drawing or carving the face is an art, which the creators considered throughout the ages as a new formation for the human being, so they created self-portraits of fictional personalities, which took their way by becoming a biography around which the self is interpreted in various ways, and perhaps psychology that took care of recently In this aspect through portraiture, it is an extension of what the ancient Arabs had, and in a science called physiognomy, and the same goal, that is, what the feelings of the image reflect.
As for the temporal aspect, since the Renaissance era, creativity has taken a special way in depicting portraits of a person who is not real, and the picture emerges, as we say today, artistic and with its full characteristics, from the Mona Lisa, with the pearl earring, to the sudden discovery of old and colored portraits in the year 2003 AD. , for faces from the Egyptian Fayoum, which date back to the era of Roman rule, and the production of about 900 painted faces, most of which bear vague questions that need explanation, so that the researchers take their way towards new analyzes of these faces, and know these people and their position in society.
Also addressing the history of coins, and portraits of faces on one and two sides, to works executed as artwork, expressing oneself and ownership, and the world bears many names that expressed portraiture, and among those names in the Emirates, plastic artist Salma Al-Marri, who completed complete portraits of legendary figures And historical, belonging to the land of the Emirates, it still lives in the conscience of people.. In addition to the artist Nujoom Al-Ghanim, who presented in an exceptional exhibition, hundreds of faces that express the ego in its expanding forms, no face resembles the other, in addition to the artist Bodour Al-Budour, who carved a portrait of an Emirati woman She wears gold on her head and chest.
Today, the art of the lens remains, with the continuation of analyzing the aspects of the explanatory snapshot through a look and a smile. Perhaps we are aware of the reason why some people refuse to photograph during fatigue or illness, so that the weaker side of it does not appear in a lens whose image reflects what is inside, and the history of portraiture continues, whether in the art of the telephoto lens or Painting or sculpture, and the portrait image in its physical, psychological and spiritual form remains strongly present.
