Portraits

1. What strikes you about this portrait? 2. What do you make of the flowers painted in a cartoon-like style that surround the man in the picture? 3. What attitude does the sitter have in this portrait? 4. Does the painting express a specific attitude about the man in the portrait? 5. Is your attitude toward the painting changed when you know that it is one of a series of watercolors that the artist painted of men of African descent and that this painting is of a man in Brazil?
Kehinde Wiley, Michael Borges Study, 2008, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
  1. What strikes you about this portrait?
  2. What do you make of the flowers painted in a cartoon-like style that surround the man in the picture?
  3. What attitude does the sitter have in this portrait?
  4. Does the painting express a specific attitude about the man in the portrait?
  5. Is your attitude toward the painting changed when you know that it is one of a series of watercolors that the artist painted of men of African descent and that this painting is of a man in Brazil?
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