{"id":1315,"date":"2023-12-30T23:47:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/?page_id=1315"},"modified":"2025-02-24T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:34:38","slug":"portrait-paintings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/portrait-paintings.html","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Portrait painting was one of my first interests in painting, and I continue to paint portraits, and curated an invitational portrait show at The Alexander Gallery at Clackamas Community College<\/a> in the fall of 2017. This was a unique opportunity to see how some modern NW artists interpret the subject of portraiture, to inspire each other, and to exhibit to the public a sample of current PNW portraiture.<\/p>\r\n

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Portraiture is one of the oldest forms of representational art, and one of the most important for the human desires of communication, expression, documentation and immortality.<\/p>\r\n

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A person’s image contains not just visual information, but a presence created by a personality- a flesh and bones being fashioned by genetics, environment, other people, and the choices, chances and attitudes of a lifetime.<\/p>\r\n

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By focusing in on a specific little know human, an artist can tap into a universal stream of humanity. The hyper-localized portrait can often become a piece that speaks to many.<\/p>\r\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Portraiture is one of the oldest forms of representational art, and one of the most important for the human desires of communication, expression, documentation and immortality. A person’s image contains not just visual information, but a presence created by a personality- a flesh and bones being fashioned by genetics, environment, other people, and the choices, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1052,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1315","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t