[HPforGrownups] Portrait-Person

[Cristina Rebelo Ângelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 84660

Paula:
 <snip> Point in case, why do the  portraits speak and move from picture to
picture (not to mention the deeds of Riddle from his diary) and photos from
The Daily Prophet (as far as I can recall) only wave and change facial
expressions.  Any ideas?

 Cristina:
I would love to have my own suspects explored by some of the people on the
list, who are either amazing at analysis, or have this huge knowledge on so
many things, and, I expect, on this...
 
Photos, even if at the beginning some people thoguth coud rob their souls,
are a moment taken / snapped/ shot out of reality into a film, which I'd say
is something more technically advanced than the technical/ chemical process
of colouring a canvas. I know there is so much to be said about this... A
photo is also a bit of the soul of the person who actually takes it... I
always remeber one of my film professors talking about films filmed in video
and not actual film, and how, for instance, simply knowing that you were
working with a less expensive material could, in his purist eyes (vice
director of Lisbon's Cinemateca), make a director not feel that rush of I
have to get this right in only a few shots, as in cinema being also that
moment of brilliant meeting of chance and something that erupted from the
insides of the enrire crew under that stress/ rush  (well, this professor
never really explained why exactly Chaplin, who would make dozens of takes
despite film price was still as if a god for him)
 
But portraits, and the good ones, always have more soul into them, not only
the artist, the eye of the artist. The stroke of the brush is magical
itself. There is something else, other than the mere presence of the person
whose portrait is being taken  - and I'm thinking "striking a pose", having
that stranger, more privileged feeling of posing for a portrait than of
posing for a photo; which makes me think, portraits are special, usually
expensive moments, normally eavy with social status, and photos also had
that special status in the beginning, even if photography was the poor "art"
relative of painting, but the choice of who actually had their photo taken
was something special, you were someone else because you had be chosen or
you could have your photo taken (I'm not taking into account the use of
photography for ethnological/ study reasons), and maybe early photos and
daguerreotypes (sp), etc, in the WW could have this same live-in person as
portraits. 
 
IMO this has to do with definitions of art, of which I have only a rough
idea, and would love to see explored by people who know. As art, in this
case paintings, as with some sort of magic - as a meeting of technics and
spiritual, where the artist is but/also a medium of something higher. IMO,
paintings are meetings of both artist and portraied person souls with
something else (call it God, Human Conscience, whatever), and if you put
magical souls into the equation (magical souls who have access to some other
dimension), stranger things can happen, like a more witnessable continuity
of the spirit of the person (and then, is that spirit only an image of the
person's evolution, personality at the moment, or can it grow, refeclting
the person's interior growth after the portrait? I'm thinking of Phineas'
"distress" at knwoing Sirus is dead - is that distress linked only to the
end of the lineage, or is there a possibility that it has something to do
with his actual after death grown love for Sirius?). Maybe the photos are
not as magical as paintings (which would difer if it was a photograph or a
painter talking), or maybe wizards take the phtos as something so normal
they simply choose not to put their souls into them (and could that resist
the reproduction of the photos, however intense?). If you look at least at
Presidents and Monarchs (and the Pope), is the choice of always having an
official painted portrait as well as the official photo innocent, or simply
social status based? Isn't there something else?...
 
I hope this can make sense to anybody else but me...
 
C
 
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