Introduction to Portraits with India Ink and Nibs
What is a portrait?
A course by José Rosero , Visual artist and teacher
About the video: What is a portrait?
Overview
“In this lesson, I will make an approach to the portrait as one of the spearheads in the whole history of art. We will see how many artists have sought to capture the faces, first, of important people in public and cultural life and, later, of anyone who will attract attention for various reasons. ”
In this video lesson José Rosero addresses the topic: What is a portrait?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Portraits with India Ink and Nibs. Learn to interpret, draw and add personality to a subject from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“What is a portrait As we already know what we are going to do in this course, I will tell you a little about what the portrait consists of and what has been its influence on art history. It is very important to consider that the portrait is the spearhead of the great artistic creations, of what has been done most in history. It is a bit that notion or search for memory preservation. It starts from, for example, sculpture in Roman times, when great busts of important characters were made, like the emperors, but also of athletes and great philosophers. Then there was a kind of investigation r...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Portraits with India Ink and Nibs
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Areas
Fine Arts, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
José Rosero
A course by José Rosero
José Rosero is a visual artist and teacher. His job is to approach the image from different points. He is now the director of CASATINTA, a space dedicated to workshops, exhibitions, and events around the visual arts. He also coordinates the Fig. International Congress of Illustration, of which seven versions have already been made in FILBO (2011-2017).
He has made several exhibitions, conferences, and workshops based on his own research participating in different events in Colombia and in other countries such as Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile.
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