Portraits - Additional: Actors Playing a Role

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 74976

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>> Portraits are actors in two senses; they are playing the role of
the person in the portrait and the are playing the role OF a portrait. <<
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> bboy_mn

bboy_mn:

I want to add some additional thoughts about how and why I concluded
that protraits are actors playing a role.

Actually, I base this on enchanted photographs which are not as
sophisticated, refined, or as subtle as portraits and therefore their
action are a little easier to read.

You will notice that photographs in newspaper and magazine articles
while they to to a small extent reflect the person in the photo, they
more often reflect the content of the article. 

If Harry is pictured and portrayed as unstable, then the photo of him
looks very shifty and menacing. In the articles that portray him in a
good light, the photo takes on the demeanor of the rosy cheeked,
smiling faced all-American boy, or in this case, the quintessentially
clean cut, bring him home to mama, All-British boy.

Now encanted portraits which are much more sophisticated, and stand
alone without the context of an article to influence them, so they
retain more of the natural personality of the real person. But I also
suspect that since they are actors portraying a role, they do to some
extent reflect the world's perceived belief in who they are. So a
wizard who was perceived to be evil, would reflect an essence of evil
in his portrait. Although, I think that would be more hinted at, his
real personality would dominate.

Just some additional thoughts.

bboy_mn