Response to 9/24 Class

I thought the last class was extremely interesting. Rococo portraits happen to be my favorite paintings, especially French rococo. I'm obsessed with Marie Antoinette, so I found my assignment of researching Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun to be very exciting! What I found the most intriguing part of the whole lesson though was that there simply is more to portraits than meets the eye. Of the few portraits I've actually seen in museums, I never really stopped and thought about the person being painted, much less the artist's relationship with that person. I merely looked at the technique, color, etc. But after this class, my eyes are completely opened to what I never saw before. There is so much more to portraiture than the aesthetics.