Lighting Studio
Portraiture Challenge
Brief: Whilst working along side the year two Bachelor of Visual Arts students, to guide them through working in the lighting studio’s, Take a European renaissance painting and use photographic studio lights to replicate the lighting, composition and framing used in the painting. In your photographic replication, explore present-day ways of thinking that relate to ideas of connection.
Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, Artemisia Gentileschi, 1610’s
Collection: Wadsworth Atheneum, Villa Medici
77.5 cm x 71.8cm
Self-Portrait as a Lute Player with a Modern Twist
AJ Simpson, Diana Seepha,
Della Chester, Jade Maloyd
Self-Portrait as a Lute Player with a Modern Twist, March 2023
Jade Maloyd, AJ Simpson, Diana Seepha and Della Chester
This portrait reflects the 1610 painting Self-Portrait as a Lute Player painted by Artemisia Gentileschi. We chose this piece as the painting is a self-portrait which at the time was rare for a woman to paint, much less a highly skilled one.
As we wanted to take a more modern approach we thought about how as a woman in that time period you were to be seen a certain way and never really be able to relax.
This is why not only did we change the models outfit to be modernised but also put in a relaxed approach to the work.
Bibliography
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“Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1654 or Later) | National Gallery, London.” n.d. Accessed February 28, 2023. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/artemisia-gentileschi.
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