Student 26

(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 begins with a curtain. the curtain is green down to earth and flows meaning that i am really down to earth. as you get to know me then you can start knowing the real me. In that case you can peal the curtain back and see what is inside.

the squares represents stability and the red that makes up those squares means that i am very outgoing and adventurous. the spiral means that my life is everchanging and it is not complete because i do not know the future. the bandage represents the deaths or problems that i had to cover up and just go on. the spaghetti noodles represent energetic yet lazy. the jagged line also represents energetic and the yellow is sybolic of the kind of attitude that i have. the cross in white represents the purity and truth that i put into my relationships.

(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 used the psychological ideas in the way that i explained myself in the different shapes,colors, and textures.

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

well they agree in the way that i feel about myself and the ideas that i perceive that fully expresses me.

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

they conflict with one another in the idea that what i think the self really is and what other people think.

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

my self portrait basically represents what i think people see of me when they do not know me and what they might think when they do know me. my beliefs try to match those.

(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?

there could be a correct answer to this question. what someone thought on themself is basically the reall idea of the definition of self and to the people who has not really found themself yet then they do not have a clear definition.

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