Week 7 Creative Practice - A Self Portrait Excercise

This week's creative practice was free choice, so as I was scratching my head trying to think of something to do, I remembered Dylan Klempner's book. One of the exercises was to create a series of 4 self-portraits. I had not created a self-portrait since my college art classes at UNF, nearly 10 years ago.

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait

One of first self-portraits was made by the Pharaoh Akhenaten's chief sculptor Bak in 1365 BC. Plutarch mentions that the Ancient Greek sculptor Phidias had included a likeness of himself in a number of characters in the "Battle of the Amazons" on the Parthenon, and there are classical references to painted self-portraits, none of which have survived (“Self-portrait,” 2015). Thirteen-year old Albrecht Dürer’s childhood self-portrait may be one of the earliest now surviving. Many European artists, including Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Manet, painted many self-portraits. Frida Kahlo is known to have created multiple self-portraits during her recovery from a traffic accident, which kept her isolated from others. Kahlo suggested, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best (Kettenmann & Kahlo, 2000).

My attempts were less than spectacular, but I had fun doing it. Here they are in the order in which they were created.

I actually ended up doing another one after I made the recording and I think this last one looks the most like me. As with anything, the more you practice the better you get. So I guess I need to keep trying to see who I really am.

Self-portrait. (2015, February 18). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Self-portrait&oldid=647644120

Kettenmann, A., & Kahlo, F. (2000). Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954: Pain and Passion. Taschen.

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