unit 4 record identity. self portrait how have artists used self portraits to record their...
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Frida Khalo Makes her interests a key part of her paintings.TRANSCRIPT
Unit 4 RecordUnit 4 RecordIdentity
Self Portrait
How have artists used self portraits to record their identity?
What mediums have they used? e.g. Paint, sculpture, photography, video...
How have recording your identity in the form of a self portrait changed throughout history? e.g. cave prints, courtesan portraits, using the camera obscurer, using photography, film...
What makes up your identity that you would like to visually record? E.g. Events, people, places, hobbies, interests?
Frida Khalo
Makes her interests a key part of her paintings.
Chuck close
uses photography and then projects image onto canvas to get life like realism
Picasso
Changes features of the face to form an abstract self portrait
Alberto Giacometti
Creates surreal figure
Gustav Klimt
Uses figures to showcase textiles and textures
Jenny Saville
Uses layered paint to explore feminist issues such as fat and body image
Bill viola
Uses video art to explore issues of his identity e.g. Birth, life and death
Sculpture