What is a portrait?

A portrait is a piece of artwork that portrays the persona of ones self.

In this portrait by sally man we see a very depressing image. The black and white eeriness of the photograph creates a death-like aura. Everything around the girl is very blurry which conveys that the life of this girl is getting very confusing and complicated. The girl is also naked, and at first i thought that meant she was promiscuous but then i saw the solemn look on her face and realized the naked body represents innocence.

Chuck Close

In this portrait by Chuck Close, we can see many shapes creating this one bigger picture. This is representing that there are many things in this man's life that come together to create one person. Weirdly, all of the squares are odd shapes which means this man has odd quirks about him that come together to make a normal looking man.

Marcel Duchamp

Oddly, this piece of artwork is called a portrait. Obviously, due to the confusing wrinkles throughout the artwork the artist is trying to portray the hardships of the persons life. All of these hardships is what make the person, just like all of the wrinkles create the human heads almost impossible to recognize.