Portrait: from the model to the image
Traced the creative process of portraiture from the “resemblance” to the “art” and their synthesis into an artistic image. Based on analysis of the ways to achieve similarity harmonization images and detect the inner essence of the model author concludes: highly artistic portrait is one in which at the resemblance and expressive artistic and aesthetic form deep emotional signs digested expression - ‘characters’ psychology and portraitist who “reads” the face of the model and is based on them genuinely truthful and objective» history of the soul. « Some typical signs of expression, a new scheme of the author’s drawing of the head, introduced the concept of “key similarities”, “angular proportions” and others.