Fine art themes

Does portraits include animal portraits or just human portraits , the themes for my exam came out today and I'm not sure if this would be allowed can anyone help???

Reply 1

Hardest Job

Original post by meep.meep

Does portraits include animal portraits or just human portraits , the themes for my exam came out today and I'm not sure if this would be allowed can anyone help???

Human portraits are seen in Modern era with. Animals aren't.

Reply 2

HarleyQ

I would expect human. But that doesn't mean it has to be a direct painting of a person/yourself. If you have a concept that intertwines portraiture with animals (eg a relationship between a person and their pet) and that is your interest/skill, it could be incorporated.

Possibly helpful:

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help/self-image

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help/masks

Reply 3

Beelie

Original post by meep.meep

Does portraits include animal portraits or just human portraits , the themes for my exam came out today and I'm not sure if this would be allowed can anyone help???

Fine art is incredibly broad. If you’re talking about a level/gcse I expect you could make it into anything you wanted to. If you break down what a portrait is it is, most often, a representation of a person. However I don’t see why you can’t do animals if you want to.

The exam board will be looking for a justification and journey to whatever you produce and as long as you have that and it is technically good and creatively exciting you will get good marks.

You could even completey abstract the idea of a portrait. They won’t be expecting everybody to produce representational portraits of people