Tell me, well, what kind of artist will keep from not admiring female beauty. And not just to admire – to see the model’s pretty woman, to capture her image through the ages, to preserve for posterity! This applies to artists in the broadest sense of the word – here both poets and painters.
Posing for a picture is not an easy task. Much depends on the type of the artist himself – whether he will allow him to sit as nature wants, or he orders to remain in the same position.
Of course, art requires sacrifice, but sacrifice to sacrifice is different. It’s one thing to imitate passion, it’s quite another to order to kill the model for a more accurate image of the dying man’s torments, as Michelangelo Buonarotti ordered to do, working on the sculpture The Dying Slave.
The portrait in painting is represented by several varieties: front door, family, household, double… Alfons Mucha adored this genre and loved to write girls of particularly Slavic nationality. And here we have the image of a young resident of Moravia.
National costume, red and beige color, beads. And yet something confuses… But what – an unnaturally arched right hand, as if in paralysis. In the left – a small mirror. According to the logic of things, a fashionista should look there, and her gaze is directed at us, more precisely, at the artist. That is why the portrait turned out disharmonious…
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