Portrait

Everyone has stress. Good or bad it is an inevitable feeling. Sometimes a person can be raveled in so much stress they do not remember their main objective. The movie Stress: Portrait of a Killer truly shows and exemplifies how stress really drives our lives. I have never put much thought into stress, but as time went on I realized how stress genuinely decide our future. There were various points I was interested in, but there are three main points I personally found intriguing: stress can…

Introduction: In this paper, I will discuss my best-self portrait which indicates my strengths/weaknesses and translate into proactive steps for my future life based on the Reflected Best Self ExerciseTM (RBSETM). At first, I requested twenty potential respondents to share stories of when I was at my best, and collected twenty-five stories from seventeen respondents. Then, I created my reflected best-self portrait by analyzing shared stories. Following that, I listed enablers and blockers and…

Self-Portraiture in Photography by Ina Loewenberg an interesting read and think the author has valid points throughout. The article states “We understand a portrait in any medium to be an artist’s interpretive rendering of the “subject” while a self-portrait is an artist’s presentation of self”(Loewenberg, 1999). I agree and I feel that a self-portrait is a great way to express his or herself through their own interpretation, furthermore, I believe that a person can see themselves completely…

human nature not religious. The Popularity of personal portraits accentuated interest with looks and appearance, Immensely tall and might looking statues portraying muscular figures made the public pay attention to their own physicality and musculature, and Renaissance Literature…

An old portrait catches the person but not the story or life they had what did they do where they lived. Chunky oak frame nothing extravagant but the person must have been important to warrant such a picture. The face neutral and impassive, no smile but deep in their eyes lies the secret to who they were and the life they lead. Dark coloured paint no background to give me clues just a darkness that reflects the darkness in the persons eyes. What year was it when they lived, simple dress in dark…

Frida Kahlo was best known for her self-portraits, said to be Mexico's greatest female artists. Kahlo originally wanted to become a doctor but she was involved in a car accident in 1925, which left her as a permanent semi-invalid and infertile. It was during her gradual recovery that she began to start painting to cure her boredom of being bedridden. She had other medical issues, such as a damaged right leg and foot from when she had polio as a young girl. Frida had no training in art, other…

be talking about self-portrait project in next few slides and I will be talking about artist and master work that I have decided to choose. Additionally, I will explain how the artist prepared and practiced for it. In this project, I chose Robert Mapplethorpe and it is his photograph from 1980s. In this photograph artist wearing dark undershirt and leather jacket and old 50s hairstyle and cigarette hanging out of left side of his mouth. Moreover, I chose this self portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe…

Portrait of a Man in Habit I depicts Shaowanasai in his Buddhist monk garment, holding on to a peculiarly placed pink child-like, “girlish” handkerchief, with his face fully made up with feminine make up. The portrait is a stark presentation of his true reality, as a practicing Buddhist and a gay man. This image practices Cotton’s description of “Deadpan Aesthetics” in portraits, which is one of the most prominent and frequently used styles of photography. The deadpan aesthetics describes as a…

Use of portraiture in redefining ostracized people In discussing nineteenth century portraiture it is relevant to discuss the different styles of Anne-Louis Girodet and Théodore Géricault in their Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley and Portrait of an Insane Man respectively. Both of these artists express a distinct difference in stylistic technique and composition that create an interesting contrast when juxtaposed. There is a similar attempt to render the subject matter of an African man and an…

The piece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Elliot is introduced with an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno. Dante’s Inferno is an epic, which depicts the journey of a man named Dante who is guided through the nine levels of hell. The excerpt from the poem is of a scene in which the speaker states that he has no fear and will speak freely of his sins to Dante because nobody who has crossed this far into Hell has ever made it back to earth to spread his story. Elliot has been known to…