




Portraiture, is to me the most fascinating form of artistic expression. During my travels I always carry with me a cornet where I constantly sketch different faces trying to register the passing time through these facial imagery.
The Van Dongen’s exposition in Montreal gathered artworks from different periods of his artistic carrier. The artwork, which captures a particular attention is the drawing titled, “Woman Drinking Absinthe.”
Before the concept of Childhood began to take shape during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the concept of the Child had many symbolic connotations in the popular imagery through the history of art.
The scholarly world of the art history critics projects many conflicting theories when referring to the Artemisia Gentileschi’s artwork.
Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna of the Red Cherubs (see fig.1) stays apart from all his other votive portraitures of Virgin and Child.