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Icebreaker: Self Portrait

 On today's class I made a Self-Portrait. I decided to emphasize the inner feelings which I have been struggled during lockdown and Christmas break.

I tried to show the different perspective of self portrait. A new brief and new look.

I also tried to avoid the traditional frame, posture, tedious shot with straight forward message. Like ''it's me'' - that is all. But that is dumb. I took it by artistic, deeper way. My perspective. Let's see the world by my eyes. 

I wanted to show the perpective of the stranger. Who just entered to the room. Then all the action starts. Some of the significant objects (with remberance of this time) and me, laying on the bed, covered with blanket. 


The position and diagonals of this art are not made by the accident. Basing on my culture knoweledge, I connected two paintings from baroque artists. The first, is named The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) from the brush of Eugène Delacroix. It currently hangs in Musem Louvre in Paris.


It present a death itself. Rather the moment before it will happened. The greater capture of surrender and total destructre. It looks like a never ending story. How the kingdom of this historical emperor ended. With such a dramatic, full of essentials picture.

The second one relates to the previous topic. It is an essence of baroque atmosphere, full of tension and uncertainty. The Entombment of Christ, famous Caravaggio painting from 1603-1604. Currently is in the Vatican Pinacoteca. No suprisingly, it has many copies. But the essential dramatic again, has been pictured with increlable result. With one I am sure, it is one of the painting in the history, which turned the aim of art. To amaze the audience. By expression extracted from the artist, viewer stteping into darker world. Of pain, scream of loosing and dying. The gesture of touching the stone, it means touching of death. The cold stone... Being naked and ready for the last farewell.



Yes, it was a shorter explanation of my artistic investigation. But it is just a beginning. 

(I will change the spelling and grammar later)



Resources:

anonymous,. The Death of Sardanapalus. [Online] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Sardanapalus [Accessed 11/1/2021]

anonymous,. The Entombment of Christ (Caravaggio). [Online] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entombment_of_Christ_(Caravaggio) [Accessed 11/1/2021]

DELACROIX, E. La Mort de Sardanapale. [Oil on canvas] In: (1827)Paris: Musée du Louvre,

CARAVAGGIO. The Entombment of Christ. [Oil on canvas] In: (1603)Vatican City: Vatican Pinacoteca,


 







 

Comments

  1. Sam Dargan11 January 2021 at 23:21

    A really good post, with some very thoughtful ideas and reasons for creating the image you made. Also an inventive approach to the self portrait, describing the way a lot of us feel about life at the moment. Remember to add a click through link underneath your research images so we can go directly to your source material. Good effort, keep it up!

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