KŘIŠTOVÁ, A.; Identity in photography and art education. [Master's Thesis] Prague 2018 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Art Education Department, 110 pages. ABSTRACT This Master's Thesis explores the perception and position of identity in society in the context of history and present, based on the approaches of foreign authors dealing with the subject. The theme of identity is situated in the context of visual culture, the history of human portrayal within the visual arts and the portrait photography genre. The concept of the theoretical part is supported by selected authorities from the history of art culture as well as from the field of contemporary art. The theoretical part is the basis for the design of didactic assignments and their following implementation at elementary and secondary schools. Second basic point for the preparation of didactic assignments is obtained from experiences gained with authorial project realization. KEY WORDS: identity, society, visual culture, portrait, photography, digital image, manipulation, intervention

This dissertation examines paintings by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino, and by his teacher, Jacopo Pontormo. It takes as its focus works created during the period of 1529-39, a decade of political uncertainty and social unrest predating Bronzino's career as court painter. The study begins during the brutal Siege of Florence in 1529-30, which brought an end to the last Florentine republic. Although the republic's defeat made way for the establishment of the Medici duchy, the 1530s were marked by fervent and unrelenting republican opposition to the new dukes. These circumstances provide the background to this study, in which paintings by Bronzino and Pontormo are shown to offer eloquent--if sometimes cautious--comment on recent political events. The initial chapters address the relationship between two paintings carried out during the Siege, reconciling Pontormo's Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi) with its allegorical cover, Bronzino's Pygmalion and Galatea. The first chapter reconsiders the role of Venus in Bronzino's painting, attributing to her a rousing, rather than pacifying, influence; she is shown to be a deity especially well-suited for reverence by young Florentine soldiers, and a fitting subject for the cover of Pontormo's republican portrait. The second chapter explores the specific political significance of Bronzino's artistic choices, paying special attention to his allusion to Michelangelo's marble David, whose form he incorporates into the figure of Pygmalion's beloved Galatea. The young hero David--shown to be one of the period's most potent republican symbols--is somehow manifest in each of the paintings considered, linking the four chapters. But whereas the Pygmalion and Galatea and Portrait of a Halberdier are explained as republican pictures created under republican rule, the portraits examined in the third and fourth chapters are presented as subversive images created under the Medici dukes. The third chapter reinterprets Bronzino's Portrait of Ugolino Martelli (c. 1537), as an expression of republican opposition to ducal rule. The fourth chapter proposes a new dating for Pontormo's Portrait of Carlo Neroni--presently understood as a republican picture dating to the period of the Siege--relocating its origin to c. 1538-9, well after the republic's defeat. This reassessment has important implications for a number of portraits by both artists, and it calls into question currently accepted art-historical approaches to Florentine culture in the 1530s. By identifying examples of republican factionalism in portraits painted by Pontormo and Bronzino under Medici rule, this dissertation discovers political dissent where previously considered impossible.

Senegal’s leading role in the development of African modernism in the 1960s is well known. Lesser-known is that, a century earlier, photography first arrived and took root in Senegal before circulating across French West Africa. This dissertation focuses on the genre of photographic portraiture in a country that did not have sculptural or masquerade traditions. It studies the ways in which photography accommodated and fostered new social and artistic practices and identities in Senegal between 1860—when the first studio opened in Saint Louis, the historical capital—and the 1960s, when photography became a “social imperative,” to use Geoffrey Batchen’s description (2001). The first chapter discusses cartes-de-visite commissioned as early as the 1860s by the first Senegalese patrons. In the course of this discussion, I challenge unilateral conceptions of photography as an apparatus of ideological control monopolized by the colonial authority. Chapter Two argues that Islam—the predominant religion in Senegal since the late nineteenth century—facilitated the popularity of the genre of portraiture through the circulation of devotional images in the form of lithographs, glass painting and photographs between the 1890s and 1920s. Chapter Three focuses on two photo series by amateur photographers from Saint Louis in the interwar period. I argue that these snapshots delineate the birth of a new subjectivity that neither mimicked French culture, nor conformed to Wolof customs. The last chapter juxtaposes the work of Mama Casset and Oumar Ka, two studio photographers working in the 1960s and 70s, in the capital and the rural interior of the country, respectively. In doing so I revisit the association between photography’s modernity and urban living, and propose that modernity can also be linked with “rural” tastes and styles. Rather than interpret it as either a “foreign” or “local” technology, this dissertation traces the fluctuations of photography’s significance in a dialectic relation with European, Islamic, American, African and Indian sources, revealing the nature of the medium as a multiplier of visions. Given Senegal's privileged status within La Grande France, this analysis will contribute to our understanding of the relationship between photography and modernity in Africa and beyond.

This dissertation offers a new interpretation of Anthony van Dyck’s art and career, taking as its point of departure a body of contemporary anecdotes, poems, and art theoretical texts that all responded to Van Dyck’s portrait sittings. It makes a decisive break with previous scholarship that explained Van Dyck’s focus on portraiture in terms of an intellectual deficit or a pathological fixation on status. Instead, I argue that throughout his career, Van Dyck consciously made the interaction between painter and sitter a central theme of his art. Offering an alternate account of Van Dyck’s relationship to Rubens as a young painter, the opening chapter examines Van Dyck’s initial decision to place portraiture at the heart of his production. I trace that decision to Van Dyck’s work on a series of history paintings that depict the binding of St. Sebastian, interpreted here as a programmatic statement on the part of a young artist with a deep commitment to life study and little interest in an emerging hierarchy of genres that deprecated portraiture. The second chapter surveys the portrait copies of both Rubens and Van Dyck, demonstrating that imitative and historicist investigations link their approaches to portraiture. Van Dyck drew upon his copies of Titian and Raphael in paintings such as his epochal portrait of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, which awakened an ambivalent response on the part of Italian artists and critics. But Van Dyck’s practice of imitation also extended to his comportment and self-presentation in public, as exemplified by his emulation of Sofonisba Anguissola. A discussion of Van Dyck’s encounter with Anguissola leads to the contention that Van Dyck saw himself as participating in an alternate genealogy of art that placed court portraiture at the heart of an ambitious career and offered a rare opening to female practitioners. Van Dyck’s reception by one such painter, the English portraitist Mary Beale, provides a Leitmotiv throughout the dissertation. The third chapter situates Rubens’s and Van Dyck’s contrasting approaches to female portraiture within a larger shift in the status of portraits of women in the early seventeenth century, as embodied by the pan-European phenomenon of the “Gallery of Beauties.” This chapter also offers readings of the two artists’ contrasting depictions of Maria de’ Medici, who visited both of their homes during her exile in the Southern Netherlands. Such visits to Van Dyck’s studio provide the subject of the fourth and final chapter, which reexamines early biographers’ accounts of Van Dyck’s sittings and surveys his legacy for English painting and art theory over the course of the long seventeenth century. Whereas in their own writings, artists emphasized the opportunities for courtly self-assertion afforded by the sitting, poets and playwrights were more likely to depict sittings as threats to the sexual and moral order. Both attitudes represent important aspects of Van Dyck’s critical reception. The conclusion looks ahead to the tenacious hold of the portrait sitting on modern imaginings of the studio. Examining the portrait practices of such artists as Lucian Freud, Andy Warhol, and Alice Neel, the conclusion reveals the persistence of a fascination with the sitting that had its origin with Van Dyck.

This thesis examines the city of Rome as a primary context of British sociability and portrait identity during the period from 1740 to 1830. Part I considers the work of the portrait painter Pompeo Batoni. It examines the pictorial record of grand tourist sociability at Rome in the 1750s, questioning the complex articulation of nationality among British visitors, and the introduction of overt references to antiquity in the portraiture of Pompeo Batoni. It subsequently interrogates Batoni's use of the partially nude Vatican Ariadne sculpture in five portraits of male grand tourists, dating from Charles John Crowle in 1762, to Thomas William Coke in 1774. Part II of this thesis considers the realities of viewing the sculpted body at Rome, recreating the studios of sculptors Christopher Hewetson and Antonio Canova. It postis the studio space as a locus of sociability for British visitors to Rome, drawing on the feminine gaze in the form of the early nineteenth-century writings of Charlotte Eaton and Lady Murray. The final chapter moves from the focus on British sitters to examine sculpture by Antonio Canova, framing it within a wider discourse of masculinity and propriety. Thte reception of Canova's nude portrait sculpture of Napoleon Bonaparte and Pauline Borghese is considered as indicative of cultural anxieties stemming from new conceptions of gender.

The thesis concerns Spanish court portrait of the 16th and the begining of the 17th century. After a brief introduction to the problematics of portrait in general it concentrates on the court portrait of the whole standing figure, maps the dawn of portrait painting in Spain and the origin of the indigenous portrait school. It analyses more closely two generations of Spanish portrait painters, especially Alonso Sánchez Coello and his competitors at the court of Philip II. and Juan Pantoja de la Cruz and his disciples working in Madrid during the reign of Philip III. Finally it summarizes the most interesting portraits from the Lobkowicz Collection which were made by these portraitists of the court of Madrid.

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Este trabalho consiste de paisagens e autorretratos, inspirados nas memórias de minha infância. Desenho, gravura e aquarela são os meios utilizados na realização de tais obras, que são acompanhadas por um texto escrito que busca, por sua vez, refletir sobre ou evocar esta memória. / This work consists of inner landscapes and self-portraits, inspired by my childhood memories. Drawing, printmaking and watercolor are the means used in carrying out such works, which are accompanaied by a written text that seeks, in turn, to reflect on or evoke this memory.

No segmento criminal, uma ferramenta digital capaz de comparar informações sobre suspeitos criminais, restringindo a lista de potenciais criminosos, representa um grande avanço tecnológico. O desafio é conseguir recuperar imagens similares em banco de dados a partir do retrato falado de um suspeito, sendo assim possível localizar as imagens de criminosos no banco de faces da polícia. A importância desse desafio deve-se ao fato que na maioria dos casos, o retrato falado gerado, a partir da descrição verbal de testemunhas é o ponto de partida para o desfecho de muitas investigações. Em vista disto, este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar um sistema computacional capaz de buscar imagens de faces humanas de um banco de faces através dos esboços das imagens de face, a partir de um retrato falado. Foram feitos retratos falados para comparar com os esboços das imagens das faces humanas presentes em banco de dados e foram recuperadas as mais semelhantes. Na metodologia proposta, as imagens de face passam por um processamento chamado Misturograma, que resulta no esboço da imagem de face, que é utilizado para se comparar com os retratos falados obtidos. O algoritmo proposto usa distância Euclidiana para comparação de semelhança e wavelets de Haar como descritor das imagens. Foram utilizadas as métricas estatísticas de avaliação de desempenho: Recall X Precision e Cumulative Match Score. A metodologia proposta obteve uma precisão de 95% de acertos nas buscas realizadas em Cross Validation, dessa forma mostra-se um método viável para recuperação de imagens a partir de retratos falados. / In the criminal segment, a digital tool able to compare information on criminal suspects, restricting the list of potential criminals, represents a major technological breakthrough. The challenge is to retrieve similar images in the database and thus from the sketch of a suspect you can find images of criminals in the police faces database. The importance of this challenge is due to the fact that in most cases, the sketch generated from the verbal description of witnesses is the starting point for the outcome of many investigations. In view of this, this paper aims to develop a computer system able to search for images of human faces from a database of faces using face images of outlines from a sketch. Sketches were made to compare with the outlines of the images of human faces present in the database and the most similar were retrieved. In the proposed methodology, the face images go through a process called Misturograma, resulting in the outlines of the face image, which is used to compare the obtained sketches. The proposed algorithm uses Euclidean distance to compare the similarity and Haar wavelets as a descriptor of the images. We used the statistical metrics for performance evaluation: Recall X Precision and Cumulative Match Score. The proposed method achieved an accuracy of 95% in carried out searches in Cross Validation thus proves to be a viable method for recovering images from sketches.

Cette thèse, qui s'appuie sur ma pratique artistique personnelle, analyse l'identité, l'origine, la valeur et la place de la main dans l'art en sillonnant l'ancienne Route de la soie. J'étudie mon parcours de création artistique, ma culture, mes identités multiples et mes influences au regard de l'héritage légué par La Roule de la soie et la route de La création. La traversée de la Route de la soie s'articule autour de quatre thèmes: la rencontre, le contact, le croisement et la frontière. Les recherches m'ont mené sur un voyage messianique dans le but de répondre aux questions qui me hantaient: l'influence étendue de la Route de la soie sur la création artistique est-elle source de créativité? Comment peut-elle se révéler dans les œuvres d'artistes contemporains? La route de ma création artistique se croise-t-elle avec la Route de la soie? Pour répondre à ces questions, j'ai présenté ma main comme une figure qui me lie à mes origines invisibles. Dans le premier chapitre, j'explore la notion d’identité à travers les portraits de la main, puis j'étudie la notion de frontière visible et invisible. Dans le troisième chapitre, j'analyse le toucher, le goûter et le croisement avec la Route de la soie. Enfin, j'examine le contexte des paysages intérieurs et je tente de mettre en lumière l'héritage caché ainsi que les secrets de l'art local imprégné par la culture de notre région et ce à travers les croisements et les métissages culturels. / Relying on my personal artistic practice, this thesis analyzes the identity, origin, the value and the place of the "band" in the art in weaving through the old Silk Road. The analysis of my artistic creation, my culture, my multiple identities and my influences in the light of the legacy of the Silk Road and the road of the creation. The crossing of the Silk Road is structured around four themes : the meeting, contact. The crossing and the border. The research led me on a messianic trip, in the aim of finding answers to the questions that concern me : how the Silk Road influences artistic creation, is it a source of creativity? How can it be in the works of contemporary artists? How it emerges on my artistic creation? To answer these questions, I presented my band as a figure, which binds me to my multiple origins. In the first chapter I will analyze the concept of identity through the portraits of the band, then I will look into the notion of border visible and invisible. In the third chapter, I will analyze the touch, the taste and the crossing with the Silk Road. Finally, I will examine the context of interior landscapes and I will try to demonstrate the hidden legacy as well as the secrets of the local art impregnated in the culture of our region through crosses and cultural mixes.