Painting the Body in the Spirit of Luchita Hurtado

Painting the human figure or a portrait of a person can be a challenge if you want to paint the body proportionally correct. But who says a portrait of a person has to be of the entire body in the traditional format? Maybe it is just a pearl necklace on a neck or light hitting the top of a knee. Over the years a lot of women painters have expanded the definition of portraiture and figure painting, playing with scale and zooming in and all kind of interesting tricks. We start with Luchita Hurtado and go from there.