The similarities in materials between The Blue Room and its underlying portrait presented a challenge for the non-invasive RIS and SR-XRF techniques.
The result, a double portrait of "a vertically challenged Barry, timidly proffering a single gladdie to a domineering Edna", was the beginning of a 30-year collaboration with Humphries.
This ethnographic history foregrounds the stories of ordinary people in Northern Ireland who embraced different rights politics and laws to conduct, conclude, and, in some ways, continue the conflict a complex portrait that challenges the dominant postconflict narrative of political and social abuses vanquished by a collective commitment to human rights.
Case in point: South African artist Anelia Loubser's series "Alienation". "'Alienation' is a collection of portraits that challenges the viewer by using creative tactics based on the concept, 'If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change,' [by Wayne Dyer]," Loubser writes in a statement supporting the work.
The portrait challenges the stereotypes of a sultan considered by his contemporaries as probably the most powerful monarch of his day.
Carter, who traveled to 33 provinces in China and authored China: Portrait of a People, challenges the stereotype that to citizens of the Middle Kingdom "all westerners are rich".
And so those four portraits give us a challenge and a stimulus today to actually try to work out how we can actually tell that story of the one Jesus in different ways that are relevant for the needs of people today.
For Kutiman, creating a sonic portrait of Tel Aviv was a challenge: he'd lived there before, and knew it too well to easily capture in a four-minute video.
Her best portraits seem to challenge the Victorian pieties that her lesser work exalts.
It offers a portrait of the challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the world.
