{"id":107,"date":"2021-10-21T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/?p=107"},"modified":"2021-10-21T04:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T04:44:15","slug":"blog-post-2-rosalba-carriera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/2021\/10\/21\/blog-post-2-rosalba-carriera\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog post 2: Rosalba Carriera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For my second blog post for Jeff\u2019s 131 Survey & Principles of illustration class, I chose Rosalba Carriera as my artist to research more about. I decided yet again to learn more about a female artist, settling for Carriera due to her painting \u201cSelf-portrait as Winter\u201d. When I was looking up which artist to choose, I saw this portrait accredited to Carriera and was taken aback. Never had I seen an elderly lady portrayed in a painting with such an air of elegance, intelligence, and power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carriera was a Venetian painter, born January 12th, 1673. An artist from the Roccoco period, she is still considered as one of the most influential female painters ever. Despite this, there is no record that she ever received any professional training, nor that she was ever someone\u2019s apprentice. (this is debated, with certain art historians believing she was taught by Guiseppe Diamantini)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She was so well known due to her skill with pastels. Dubbed \u201cthe queen of pastels\u201d by many, she excelled in this medium while many painters were focused on using oil paints. Her pieces are soft and light, with figures often almost dissolving into the backgrounds they stand in front of. But the intense eye contact with the viewer grounds them, creating a tether to our realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her miniature paintings were mounted onto pieces of ivory, which became a trademark of hers. While she was still alive, these were so popular people started making their replicates. These were \u201ctravel-sized\u201d pieces, that sold well to the \u201ctourists\u201d passing through Venice. This is proof that Carriera was not only an artistic genius but also an entrepreneur, who knew how to sell her work and herself to the public eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/594151\/the-life-and-work-of-rosalba-carriera\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosalba_Carriera<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rosalba_Carriera_-_Self-Portrait_as_%22Winter%22_(1730-1731)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my second blog post for Jeff\u2019s 131 Survey & Principles of illustration class, I chose Rosalba Carriera as my artist to research more about. I decided yet again to learn more about a female artist, settling for Carriera due to her painting \u201cSelf-portrait as Winter\u201d. When I was looking up which artist to choose, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}