Essays on Self-Portrait

Francisco De Goya, the great Spanish artist, was born on 30th March 1746 in a place called Fuendetodos, which is located in the province of Saragozza. He moved to Saragozza later with his father who was guilder by profession and studied at a school called “Escuelas Pias de San Anton.” Goya started learning art when he was 13 years old and became an apprentice to a local painter in Saragozza (Felisati and Sperati 264).Initially, Goya copied the work of different artists such as Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez and Rembrandt Van Rijn. He developed a friendship with a ...

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Frida Kahlo is a name that is associated with physical and emotional pain. The famous Mexican painter is well known for her self-portraits. The paper takes two of her artworks, her “Self Portrait with Loose Hair” and “A Few Small Nips” and discusses as to why they are important works to display in an exhibition. Her artworks reflect her pain and despite her limited mobility, the determined artist continued to paint. The essay offers a full explanation of the significance of her works giving historical context for understanding the artist and her work. Her canvases show her affinity for ...

Sexuality and gender have no place in the modern world, but while reading the work of Diane Seuss and Emily Dickinson, it is clear sexuality and gender are a part of every aspect of life, similar to a universal truth that has no chance of changing any time soon. Poetry has the ability to tell a story through multiple verses, lines, or stanzas. This paper will focus on the works of Seuss and Dickinson, while discussing the formal elements of both poems. The first poem described is “Still Life with Self-Portrait” by Diane Seuss discusses the painting by Cornelius ...

Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist, was born on in the house of her parents, known as Casa Azul – the Blue House – in town Coyoacan, the suburb of Mexico City. Her father - Wilhelm Kahlo – had German roots, moved to Mexico in his early age. Her mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez had mixed Spanish and Indian roots. At the age of six, she has contracted the polio, which has made her to stay in bed for nine months. This disease has made her right leg and foot grow much thinner than her left one. She had to limp after the ...

The Modern period from the late 19th to the early phase of the 20th century served as the catalyst for the beginning of avant-garde works of different artists whose works isolated their styles from the rest of the artistic movements that emerged in the previous eras. These new designs spearheaded the development of the comic book art wherein the iconography of the subjects attempted to portray the real world yet in an animated way without closely resembling the reality. The artists who popularized these method includes Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Larry Rivers each of the defined the early ...

Introduction

Surrealist is the work of art that has its roots in the early 1920s it was aimed at creating a connection between what most people referred to as dreams and fantasies to the reality. Surrealist work of art was designed to create a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious features of experiences to build absolute reality from primary imagination. Surrealist work of art developed from psychological processes and not any logical and rational process. Surrealist work art was aimed at establishing an evaluation of psychic characteristics (Barr, Alfred Hamilton, and Georges Hugnet). To develop psychic responses in the ...

Introduction

Every artwork is done with regards to the subject matter and artistic styles which varies from one art to another. Most artists embraces different artistic styles in presenting the artwork where most of their work are influenced by the main goal of the paintings as well as the events that took place at that time. This paper is going to describe three paintings and compare them in regards to their artistic styles and subject matter. Also, the factors that influence the changes in their artistic styles and subject matter will be elucidated. The work in chapter 21 is “The ...

“Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress” is a movie about Close’s journey evolving as an artist overcoming his physical disabilities and how he made a place for himself in the New York’s contemporary art community. Chuck Close displayed his first series of black and white portraits in the year 1967-68 known as a big self-portrait; now one can see the use of colors in his painting which he makes from photographs as big as 9 feet (Chuck Close 2016). The video gives insight to how Close plans his paintings and how he works on it in his ...

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi

China has a lot of history that many illustrious and prolific historians like Jonathan Spence have tried to explain in their books. Jonathan Spence is the author behind the fiction named the Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi. This is a very exciting fiction was written in the year of 1974. Jonathan has used the letters and historical records that K’ang Hsi had written in describing the later years of K’ang-Hsi, who is considered the great leader of that time. The book has been divided into chapters. ‘In Motion’ is the first chapter; this chapter depicts ...

Albrecht Durer was a versatile and gifted German artist of the Renaissance period. The brilliant painter left a strong impact on the medium of printmaking and commercial centers in Europe. The artist is known to create a number of striking self-portraits that assert his creative genius (Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) 2016). His Self-Portrait wearing a coat with fur collar is done on a wooden panel in 1500. The essay discusses the Self-Portrait as well as the importance of the gaze in the portrait that is considered the most personal and complex. The self-portrait was done in 1500 was ...

China has always been considered to be one of the strongest empires in the world, where a lot of military achievements took place due to a very fast development of new kinds of weapons and protection systems. China was impossible to defeat. Having the largest population in the world, it took care of all the people to get education. For the Western world, it wasn’t easy to understand the complex Chinese culture. While there was already presidency in Europe and women fought for the rights, the Chinese still had emperors and aimed on conquering more lands. Their women ...

Introduction

Effective marketing strategies that are designed and implemented by smart marketers focus on the consumer behavior. In particular, successful fashion brands pay attention to the consumers’ perception of their own selves. Self-concept defines the consumer choice of apparel, shoes, and accessories. Without knowing the consumers’ perception of their own selves, it would be hard for the fashion marketers to position the products in the market successfully. The paper analyzes the role that the knowledge and understanding can play in implementing effective marketing strategies. There is also a brief comparison between the marketing strategies of Tommy Hilfiger and Nike, to ...

Complete Name of Professor

Our universe is vast and the creatures living in it are very much diverse in their own ways. We human beings are all unique from each other—which, I think, makes us special. The way that we think, act, and speak is makes us distinct from other creatures and from one another as well. Although separated by various cultural and geographical boundaries such as language and traditions, we are still able to connect to each other through the understanding of humanities tied along with history. I, for one, learned to support and strengthen the local arts in my ...

After the century in which Vincent van Gogh lived, the early twentieth century was a period of continuous change in politics, economy, and society. The revolutionized printing press liberated the people’s minds from the curtains of naiveté and transformed the society into a modernized culture where freedom of expression is highly valued. Frida Kahlo was a female Mexican artist who often noted through her expressive self-portraits which are characterized by her solid and thick eyebrows similar to a man. Her paintings reflect the pain, her dreams, and her life hidden from the public view.

The Life and Works of Frida Kahlo

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon was born ...

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=344716 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Dutch, about 1628 Oil on copper 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. 2013.60

Introduction

This is perhaps one of the most famous self-portraits of all time since it shows Rembrandt in a laughing pose that is also quite uncommon for an artist. The artist painted more than one hundred original self-portraits and the correct name for this work is; ‘A more cheerful pose’ and is in keeping with the more jovial style that he had adopted during this particular period. The portrait includes several trademark elements that we normally associate with Rembrandt, including the interplay ...

The self-portrait is probably the most important painting in the repertoire of the artist since it defines the character and vitality of the subject matter. A self-portrait is an important statement about oneself apart from also being intrinsically linked to an artistic development. I approached the self-portrait issue with some trepidation, since this has been the remit of several great artists over the years, and several have been studied in detail, apart from offering important guidelines about that particular artist’s work (Smith, Kelly, 1997). The practice of portraiture probably began with the Ancient Egyptians when it was ...

Women in art have always been a very mysterious and intriguing object to observe, both from the perspective of women as an object and a subject for the painting. Mona Lisa is possibly the most recognized painting in the world. She still puzzles its every observer with her gaze and feeble smile, welcoming him to silent communication. Frida Kahlo is the world’s most recognized woman artist. However, she neither invites for silent conversation in her Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, nor does she puzzle the observer. What Frida does, is pictures her soul openly and frankly, not hiding anything, not leaving ...

Introduction

Maurice Merleau-Ponty begins his essay “Eye and Mind” with a comment on science. Studying the world in the manner that science does, takes a person out of one’s body, he says. It places the world in a series of definitions, constructs, indices and variables, allowing only the understanding of minute, exact changes to have a status of legitimacy. He says science “comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals” (Ponty, 121). For any lover of art who lives in this practical, rational capitalistic society, this point of view is refreshing. Today, typically, the real world is referred to ...

The first piece of artwork I chose is an advertisement from the New World Pasta Company. They carry a line of foods under the brand name of the Prince brand. The advertisement uses the famous and very recognizable artwork, the Mona Lisa by artist Leonardo DaVinci. This was a print ad which is no longer in circulation; however the image is available at the Hess Design website. The purpose of the ad was to sell spaghetti sauce. The ad was attempting to evoke the emotion of happiness. Happiness was implied because spaghetti is often seen as a comfort food. The New ...

PART 1

Summary The copyright laws and right of ownership are controversial as different players or parties debate on the issue. One of the widely and globally controversial is a wildlife photographer whose camera was snatched by the monkey taking form of self portrait ‘selfie’ photographs. The photographer decision to sell the images to some of the leading search engines companies went viral with Wikipedia being the last resort. The implications on the Australian laws as the wrangles between the photographer request for the removal of the photos from Wikipedia unfolded. The respective entities entailed refusal of Wikipedia to remove the ...

Compare and Contrast the self-portraits of Rembrandt van Rijn and Cindy Sherman. What do each of these artists understand the self-portrait to reveal about themselves?Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was the most prominent Dutch painter of all times and one of the greatest painters in the history of art. He made over a hundred self-portraits in different techniques. His life was very exciting which can be seen from his artwork. Some of his self-portraits are clear, sometimes less clear, dreamy and ethereal and his final self-portraits are realistic with gray hair and sorrow on his face. However, what all of these ...

A self-portrait is an artistic representation of an artist, painted, sculptured, drawn, or photographed by the artist. Several artists have used self-portraits to highlight different aspects about themselves that they believe other artists might not critically bring out in their representations. Since the advent of the mirror in the fifteenth century, modeling artworks have greatly improved with self-portraits becoming some of the new advents that came with the mirror. For whatever reason an artist might choose to construct a self-portrait, almost all the artists in all media from sculptors to painters have attempted this exploration of self. Jean Fouquet's self-portrait ( ...

Abstract refers to taking and object as the subject and manipulating it. Abstract’s desired goal of always seeing something new in terms of art and its subject matter (Mathis). This idea can be seen in the painting “The Two Fridas” by Frida Kahlo with its thematic connections including abstract modernism, subjects drawn from influences of society, abstract messages through iconography, and humor. Frida Kahlo gives the viewer in her oil on canvas painting, “The Two Fridas” another look at her personal expression of the inner woman as no other female artist before in her over 200 works. This ...

Part I. Stylistic

The unknown work of art can be compared to the works of Paul Gauguin. However, what set’s the “Self Portrait with Halo” painting from the rest of Gauguin’s work is the use of more vivid colors, but all of them show similarities in the use of postimpressionism techniques. Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Emile Bernard in 1888 shows similarity in terms of angles. Gauguin’s portrait with halo art and that of Gauguin’s portrait with Emile Bernard encompasses characteristics such as the use of real-life subjects models, emphasized distort form and visible brush strokes. Gauguin used his ...

Black artists like Archibald Motley try to depict their struggle with the western white concept of God in their art by depicting racialized biblical subjects by including religious imagery in black genre scenes. The motif of suffering Christ in paintings engages issues of African American cultural identity that ranges from the depiction of crucifix in black genre to conflation of crucified Christ and the lynched black man. The main intention being to symbolize Christ as a device charged with racial and religious meaning. In Motley’s painting, we become aware of an old woman concentrating on sewing with a white ...

A response to the artworks

A response to the artworks

INTRODUCTION

The contemporary artworks of 21st century have come far ahead of usual pencil, paint brush and charcoal artworks. Now, there are countless instances of digital artworks as well as mixed media art incorporating innovative ideas and state-of-the-art technologies. This short essay analysis aims at illuminating the similar array of artworks- by artists Beth Grabowski and Jina Valentine. The response for their artworks in term of artistic quotient has been given here.

BETH GRABOWSKI’S ARTWORKS

Beth Grabowski is the Assistant Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Studio Art who takes classes including undergraduate courses in printmaking, 2-D ...

Salvador Dali painted The Persistence of Memory in 1931, and today it is regarded among the 20th century’s most acclaimed and remembered paintings. This painting served as a means of introducing Surrealism in conventional America. The reason this painting has always been increasingly appealing, and has both encouraged and perplexed analysis and explanation is because Dali has effectively combined the dreamlike and the everyday, the illogical and symbolic, technology and nature. Even the hardness and softness in the painting create confusion. However, according to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), these “baffling” qualities of the painting, especially the watches, ...

In naming this piece, Damien Hirst compels us to confront the message of End Game: our vanity and mortality. Hirst draws from the vanitas (Latin for vanity) genre of paintings of the 17th century, which depicted decaying animals and fruits and human skulls. The effect was to remind us of the temporality of all life. Hirst too wants us to stand face to face with our own personal “end game.” End Game is a large-scale sculpture. It measures 77 X 148 X 20 inches and stands up along a wall at one end of the gallery. The main component of ...

Te Pehi Kupe's "Self Portrait."

The two portraits of Te Pehi Kupe present a sharp contrast on how different cultures view an individual. When first viewed they seem very different. However, when the aspects of context come into play the similarities are abundant. By examining each of the aspects of context one by one these similarities can be brought into sharp focus. Both portraits were completed in about the same year, at the same place and of the same subject. Both portraits may even have been created at the request of the same individual. The differences arise from how the artist portrayed the subject. The ...

1. The Elder Sister

This is a painting made by a French painter, William Bouguereau in 1869. The medium employed is Oil on canvas. It is 51 ¼ x 38 ¼ inches in dimension and found at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It was presented as gift b an Anonymous Lady in memory of her father.

Description

It portrays a young girl, staring fixedly at the beholder while affectionately embracing an infant on her thigh, gifted with an almost mysteriously enticing beauty. William Bouguereau was the typical thriving scholastic painter. His canvases were in great demand by European and American investors mutually, and his reputation has been reawakened lately.

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