For my final project, I decided to take my own spin on a typical self portrait painting. As someone who typically goes through vigorous mood swings and different feelings, I decided to bring that to light. My mood swings are something I usually do not share because of my ability to manage them and bring a front to society. On the inside I may be feeling depressed, angry, sad, or even happy, but I don’t always portray my moods. The subject of my self portrait is me with colors to represent my different moods and symbols for those moods. I decided creating this piece was a good way to cancel out my suppressed emotions and just let them flow. My painting is similar to Frida Khalo’s “Henry Ford Hospital”. In Khalo’s painting she is portraying her different moods in an environment where she struggles. My portrait gives the sense of emotion to the audience. You see my head floating with all the different moods and feelings I may have. The point of the piece is to express emotions in different ways. My midterm project focused on more of a materialistic part of my life. I focused on the things that make me and the building blocks of my life. This project is me emotionally. It is who I am and how I feel. I wanted to give a new perspective of myself, to show that I am more than just the things that make me. I have emotions and feelings that I tend to get really in tune with. The media and imagines influences self presentation because we want society to envy us. We want to fit in and make it seem as if we are a cooperating member of society. We want society to see us in a certain light, but not the accurate light. The spectacle is everything in society other than people and how it influences us. My project uses symbolism to portray the spectacle. We associate different things with emotions and that is the spectacle in full force.
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