Artists write about painting portraits….

The distance from the chin to the nostrils makes up a third of the face. It is the same from the nostrils to the eyebrows, and again from the eyebrows to the hairline. From one ear to the other, the distance is the same as from the eyebrows to the chin. The width of the mouth is the same as that from the middle of the lips to the chin.
Leonardo da Vinci

To displace. Put the eyes where the legs are, the genitals where the face is. To contradict. To do an eye face on and one sideways. Nature does many things like me, but she hides them.
Pablo Picasso

The way the nose is rooted in the face, the way the ear is screwed into the skull, the way the lower jaw is hung, the intensity of the gaze…
Henri Matisse

By the way, I am not a prince, but someone who makes his living from his handicraft.
Peter Paul Rubens

I have finished the portrait of me that you wanted… You will not be disappointed; I have kept my promise, since I have chosen the best and most lifelike for you: you will see the difference for yourself.
Nicolas Poussin

In a head, the first thing for an artist to do is to make the eyes speak…then you move on to how the nose sticks out. The sloping nostril is a good means of expression: it indicates a peaceful character.
Dominique Ingres

I am getting really old, I am covered in wrinkles, and you would not even recognize me apart from my puggish nose and my sunken eyes… What is certain is that I look my age: forty-one…
Francisco Goya
The flesh only has its true colour in the open air, especially in the sunlight. The local complexion must be transparent; though if halftoned it gives the illusion, in principle, of the blood under the skin.
Eugène Delacroix

I have bought for the purpose a fairly good mirror in order to work using myself as a model, as I do not have a real model, because if I manage to paint the colouring of my own head, which is a bit of a challenge, I could then just as easily paint the faces of other good men and women.
Vincent van Gogh

biography vincent van gogh :

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born from 30 March 1853and died the 29 July 1890 was a Dutch painter. Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers and traveled between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught in England. During this time he began to sketch people from the local community, and in 1885 painted his first major work the potato eaters.. In March 1886, he moved to Paris and discovered the French impressionist.

describe: The medium that Vincent van Gogh painted his portait was the gouache and the oil.the size was 553*630, colors were orange, red,yellow,green,dark,white.It was a portrait who had very light and no very shade.The style of the portrait was expressionnnist and impressionnist.the subject treated was the mutilation of Vincent van Gogh who is made.The artist tried to sayabout himself what he is made.We learn that he was sad , dissapointed.In my opinion he waits his end as thought he was relinquished.Personnally,i thinks Vincent van Gogh have fifty when he painted his portrait because he have wrinkle.The portrait was intended for the people who despire him and not know him.My emotions when i lookingat the portrait are that i thinkshe was made and very sad. In my opinion we felt pity of him.

why i like this painter:

i like this painter because in my opinion he has a particular style.I thinks colors are harmonious and i have a feeling of acquaintance.

Question sur l'exposition

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