5.2.6 - Quick Check: The Portrait

Question

Madame Moitessier
by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
When creating a portrait, an artist wants to pay close attention to proportion as well as capture the personality of the individual. The portrait pictured here

Correct answer
C.
demonstrates appropriate proportions and shows an expressionless personality.

Study of the Head of an Old Woman
by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
When the artist created the portrait shown here, he

Correct answer
A.
used appropriate proportions while correctly capturing texture and details

Portraits of Serafino and Francesco Falzacappa
by Pier Leone Ghezzi

Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
To make this scene appear to be realistic, the artist did all of the following except
C.
pay no attention to the proportion of the two individuals to each other

The Vexed Man
by Franz Xaver Messerscmidt

Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
Creating a portrait that embodies a person's feelings or personality involves
C.
capturing emotion in the piece.

Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey
Hudson
by Sir Anthony van Dyck

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
This portrait is successful for all of the following reasons, except

Correct answer
A.
the choice of clothing and scenery do not capture any historical period

Answer 1

For me this is my last art lesson I will miss it and I hope next year will be better for all of us :3