The_Portrait

The Portrait The Portraits: General John Burgoyne and Louis-Francois Bertin By Sir Joshua Reynolds and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres The portrait, a single person immortalized forever on canvas. At first glance, you only see the subject. With a more analytical eye, though, you not only see the image but you begin to hear the voice of the painter and of his time. This is what I hope to do, to feel and understand the mind of the painter Ingres when he painted Louis-Francois Bertin and Reynolds when he painted General John Burgoyne. In the portrait of Bertin, Ingres has captured on canvas a man who has never been pampered in life. You feel by looking at him that this is a man who has worked for everything that he has ever received in his life. Why do you feel this, though' Let us begin with the colors chosen for this piece. The colors revolve around brown, giving you the impression of something very down to earth. The background of the painting is basically one solid brown. Bertin occupies the whole bottom section of the painting, with nothing of his body going above three-fourths of the canvas. He is the ground, below even the earth tones of the bertin, general, burgoyne, portrait, one, background, man, even, time, though, life, eyes, both, body, people, color, two, right, person, men, feel, face, different, bertin’s, battle, worked, very, something, red, paintings, painting, maria, john, fighting, commentary