It is common knowledge that a portrait is meant to display human personality, to convey individuality, and even the character of the person; thus revealing in a concrete human typical features of the social environment, time, and maybe even the epoch…
Nevertheless inanimate objects – belongings that are used by people and are dear to them; which reflect their likes, their individualities, their characters, conceptualities, reminiscences, and, probably, their whole life stories, — can also speak volumes about their owners…
There might also exist portraits of concepts and ideas…
In fact, a portrait is something, which always creates a warm hearty response, and not only with a painter…
And a synergetic portrait is all above mentioned together, i.e. it is a conceptually multidimensional portrait of someone or something!
“COME ON, I’LL SING, AND YOU DANCE!”
GALINA, FOR YOU and US - THERE IS ANTIQUE HALICARNAS...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The girl with a peach
Five o'clock tea
Caesar’s Comet
Laine
Lili Marlene Dietrich
V. V. Mayakovsky
Molto glissando
Ants Laikmaa’s Peonies
A portrait of Alexander Grin
A portrait of I. K. Aivazovsky
"Simply I’m working as magician..."
Van Gogh’s lilacs to Rachmaninoff
Once upon a time, there lived a little girl...