Ingrid Bergman
by Jordan Henderson
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18.000 x 24.000 inches
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Title
Ingrid Bergman
Artist
Jordan Henderson
Medium
Drawing - Charcoal
Description
Her film career spanned more than five decades, which for a woman in an industry that is brutal toward the concept of females aging is most impressive.
Swedish actress Ingrid Bergaman (1915-1982) acted in many European and American productions, but perhaps her best-known role was that of Ilsa, in Casablanca, starring across Humphrey Bogart.
Other films of note are For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943); Gaslight (1944); The Bells of Saint Mary’s (1945); and Joan of Arc (1948). For all four works she earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress, and for Gaslight she won the award.
She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945, with Gregory Peck); Notorious (1946, with Cary Grant); and Under Capricorn (1949, with Joseph Cotten).
She went on to win two more Academy Awards – Best Actress for the 1956 Anastasia, and Best Supporting Actress for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
As with all my charcoal portraits, I chose to draw Ingrid Bergman because I was fascinated by her face, her demeanor, her expression. The lines of her cheekbones are sculpted, strong, while her eyes add a sense of contemplation, meditation, a softening of the overall features. And while lighting, shadow, and makeup can work their magic on anyone (witness the filters so prevalent on Facebook and other social media sites), Bergman was truly, physically beautiful (on the outside; I have no idea, as I have with no celebrity, what she was like on the inside).
The sweep of hair frames her face, further adding to the softening effect without lessening that of strength, purpose, and determination. She is an actress from the “classic” age, one in which we can maintain our delight in the persona because we see her pretty much just on screen, and have not been subject to her views on politics, or how the rest of us should live our lives.
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July 16th, 2020
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Lori Pittenger
Congratulations your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of Impressionism group 12/14/2022! Please visit the group to view it in our online gallery and add it to the features log and catalogs in the group’s discussions. Excellent work!
Jeff Burgess
Your creative work is outstanding. Thanks for submitting it to the Pacific Northwest Artists (PNA) group. It has been featured on the home page as representing the best of us and deserves “congratulations”. For permanence and additional exposure, please place your art piece in the “Discussion” section titled: featured in 2022.
Jenny Revitz Soper
BRAVO! Your artwork has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of The Artists Group, 12/02/2022! You may also post it in the Group's Features discussion thread and any other thread that fits!
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