Portrait 

Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh

The most famous portrait in the world is the Mona Lisa, which is a portrait of a woman of the same name.

When the artist creates a portrait in his or her own image, it is called a self-portrait. Many of the most famous works of artists have been self-portraits.

Portrait photography is a popular commerical industry all over the world. Many people enjoy having professionally-made family portraits to hang in their house, or special portraits to commemorate certain events, such as graduations or weddings.

In politics, portraits of the leader are often used as a symbol of the state. No matter where you are, in most countries it is common protocol for a portrait of the Head of State to appear in important government buildings. When portraits of the leader are used excessively, it becomes a sign of a personality cult.

External links

• Diego Goldberg's family portraits, 1976-2002 (http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html). "On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by."
• The Brown Sisters, 1975-1999 (http://www.zabriskiegallery.com/Nixon/nixon.htm) by Nicholas Nixon. Nixon made group photographs of his wife and her three sisters over 25 years.
• When I Was Little (http://www.wheniwaslittle.net), a website that allows users to upload pictures of themselves as children and adults
• Jeanne Ivy's Self-Portrait Page (http://www.research.umbc.edu/~ivy/selfportrait/), "What Artists Find When They Search in the Mirror".

In literature the term "portrait" refers to a written description or analysis of a person or thing. A written portrait often gives deep insight, and offers an analysis that goes far beyond the superficial. For example, American author Patricia Cornwell wrote a popular novel intitled Portrait of a Killer about the personality, background, and possible motivations of Jack the Ripper, as well as the media coverage of his murders, and the subsquent police investigation of his crimes.

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