This lesson was very helpful before we went to the portrait gallery as it made us look into the portraits more and helped us analyse the symbols within the portrait which suggests the sitters status and personality. This also helped us when trying to decide what kind of hairstyles and what type of makeup we would like to create in our final designs as we are able to see what Elizabethan hairstyles are actually like.
Within portraits these days they don't really include symbolic objects as the portraits are
more about the models/sitters. However they do sometimes wear
certain pieces of clothing that
suggest how wealthy they are of what things
they like. In modern times the clothes worn by the model/sitter say more about
them than the objects in the background which shows how times have changed and
how the model is the main focus of the image.
In this lesson we learned that there is much more to the images we are
looking at as there are symbols everywhere to denote the wealth of the sitter
and what they are like as a person which was interesting to see/look at.
The seminar was very straight forward and wasn't at all hard to follow which made it easy to take notes as sometimes i struggle to keep up with the slides. After this lesson we went to the National Portrait Gallery and looked in the tudor section at Elizabethan style portraits to see what symbolic objects were used and we were required to find a portrait we like and research it when we got back to see what the symbols actually represent. I made sure I carried this research out a few days after the trip as I wasn't sure which portrait I liked the most.
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