The construction of likeness in some contemporary high portrait painting

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dc.contributor.authorBrenner, Joni
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-22T07:01:11Z
dc.date.available2016-08-22T07:01:11Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-22
dc.descriptionA Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Arts. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Fine Arts. Johannesburg 1996en_ZA
dc.description.abstractLikeness is a central issue to the tradition of portrait painting. This dissertation examines the notion of likeness in some contemporary high portrait painting. Likeness is viewed as constructed socially through the complex relations between artist, sitter and viewer. Faced with the problematic notions of realism and naturalism and their philosophical ramifications, the dissertation confronts the question of What in our world can be regarded as natural or given, and what is constructed or acquired. The discussion, framed by the debate set up between Nelson Goodman and E.H. Gombrich, leads to the conclusion that the 'natural' and the 'real' are not neutral, they are highly constructed. The dIfferences between various conventions; various ways of representing others, are extrapolated from the debate, and once acknowledged. the final position taken is a less linear conventionalist stance. The constructed nature of likeness is tested against the portraits by American artist, Andy Warhol and British artist. Lucian Freud, contemporary painters working in direct antithesis to one another. The aim is to show that both of their portrait likenesses. whether private or public, painterly Or mechanical, are embedded within socially constructed conventions. Recognition of 'the conventions can guide the viewer in deconstructing the work and locating the meaning. I discuss my own work in relation to the contents of this dissertation.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/20922
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshPortrait painting--20th century
dc.subject.lcshPortrait sculpture--20th century
dc.titleThe construction of likeness in some contemporary high portrait paintingen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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