Sunday in the Art Room SITAR

 Welcome to 

 

Above made by me with NightCafe. 

Today is for artists that create in ANY medium to come on by and just talk art. Write a post about what's on your mind in the art world. It's a place to ask questions on your blog where other's can hopefully answer. Or share your videos, your techniques, tools or even what type of camera you use. So, you say you can't draw but you can write.... that's art baby! AI creations are welcome as well. Since this type of art is taking off to main stream. Let's say you think you are in no way artsy. But you love art. Show murals, historical art, your friends or kids art and talk about it.  

I would like this to be an all inclusive way for artist to share, whatever. 

My only rule? Criticism with kindness. 

If someone asks to have their art critiqued it must be done with generosity and consideration. 

This is a place of encouragement and inspiration. 

 

I want to clarify something for the last portrait challenge on FFO. I had written "no photos" for the challenge, and then changed it. I really don't know what I was thinking. Portrait images have a long distinct history. I'm gong to skip a lot of the very start of the invention which started in 1717. By 1839 photography was announced to the world.  Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced and commercially viable photographic process. The daguerreotype required only minutes of exposure in the camera, and produced clear, finely detailed results. 

Richard Beard  set up a photography studio as a business speculation in 1843.  He purchased a license to use the daguerreotype process in 1841, and opened the world's first photographic studio. It was set up in a glasshouse on the roof of London's Royal Polytechnic Institution to provide all-round lighting, which was necessary to the daguerreotype process. There were huge profits from his studios in London and Liverpool and from the sale of license to take daguerreotypes. However, Beard was ruined by his many legal actions against rivals, and went bankrupt in 1850.

I believe this is Richard Beard. It was difficult to find.

It has been said that the camera is the most important invention of the 19th century. 

Yevonde Philone Middleton Portrait Photographer and suffragette is now my hero of photography.

She joined the suffrage movement around 1910, which inspired her to seek financial independence through a career in photography. 

Yevonde, also known as Madame Yevonde, was a London-based photographer of portraits and still life throughout much of the twentieth century. She was a pioneer in photographic techniques, experimenting with solarisation and associated particularly with the Vivex colour process, which she utilized to great effect in the 1930s. "If we are going to have colour photographs, for heaven’s sake let’s have a riot of colour, none of your wishy washy hand tinted effects." said Yevonde in 1932 in an address to the Royal Photographic Society.  

Yevonde Middleton, Yevonde with Vivex One-Shot Camera, 1937, © National Portrait Gallery, London

 

 “Color photography has no past, no tradition, no old masters… only a future! 

For Yevonde, Vivex offered a space not yet shaped by male-dominated conventions, a space where she could build a new, feminist visual language.

Madame Yevonde’s six-decade-long career is defined by her willingness to embrace new technologies and her commitment to women’s independence.  Her work aligns closely with the aims of Feelings in Common, offering alternative readings of photographic history and amplifying the voices of those often overlooked.

Madame Yevonde remains a key figure who used color, and imagination to expand what photography could be. 

sited here 

When we come to today we would not have the medical technology, such as, Diagnostic Tools combined with AI to assist in every part of our medical.  The camera and photography today has advanced immensely with mirrorless cameras, computational photography, and AI powered image processing.  This just touches on a very long list of what has advanced with the camera. For all of us armatures our phones and sure shot 

point n shoots allow us to take photographic portraits of family and friends and upload them to social media without a thought.

I tried to down load the 3 videos in this series but the owner turned off the use on other websites

You can watch this series on Prime, Apple, and Now TV. 

The series is excellent on portraits and explains how portraiture has evolved. The National Portrait Gallery in London, founded in 1856, holds 195,000 works spanning six centuries, covering famous British historical figures from the Middle Ages to the present day. 

I'm off to draw a portrait.

 

That's if for me. I look forward to seeing your art in 

Sunday in the Art Room

Nicole