Student 16

(question 5) In your own words, describe your self-portrait and the style of art it represents. Please try to explain your use of line, shape, color and texture and what is conveys to you.

My self portrait was completely non-objective, being I only used shapes, textures, colors, and lines. The outside of my box is square in shape which represents a practicality others see when they first get to know me. The bright colors of pink and red represent the Yorubas,PUPA, or fiery emotions. The inside of my box is a soft yet PUPA colored felt. This shows my intensity as well as my softness. The spiral is my main focus. It begins with FUN-FUN colors that are icy, like gold and silver. As you travel further you get to emotionally unstable and firery colors. In the end, or in my life as I work through my problems I become mellow and down to earth. I also use jagged energetic lines, wavy caring lines, and the diagonal dramatic line. I included some triangles and circles, but I do niot feel like I have a lot of stabolity in my life.

(question 6)Please explain how you used ideas from the resources on the self we studied. Did you consciously use ideas from or react to any of the following resources in your self-portrait: the psychological theories of self? The Rilke discussion of "faces," "hands," or "costumes"? The Asian views of the self? The examples from art of non-representational self-portraits? Please clearly explain what ideas from these sources you integrated into your self-portrait and why.

I identifiedn wit the nonrepresentational the most because I do not like for people who I don't trust to reallly know my strnghts and weaknesses. I felt this was a way to express them but not give them away.

(question 7) In what ways do these different disciplinary resources agree with one another on the question of what is the self?

Everyone has a different perspective on everything, and these different views made it easier for an individual to identify with one method over another.

(question 8) In what ways do they conflict with each other on the question of what is the self?

Being that everything represents something different someone might get a different reaction to a way that one tries to ralate to something and pass judgement more quickly.

(question 9) Does your self-portrait try to reconcile these ideas or did you choose a particular postion to convey? Why?

I tried to stick to non- objective method and let people perceive for themselves how they identify or don't identify with me.

(question 11) In our unit on the self, is there a right answer to the question of what the self is? If not, what is your reaction to our inability to provide a clear answer one way or the other on this issue?

Ifeel that there is no right or wrong answer to what is self. I would of thought negativly if the instructors would of tried to impose a certain definition for the question of what is self.

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