Self Portrait process

Blog A)
The artist I chose was Frieda Kahlo. I included 2 of Kahlo's self portraits. She painted with bright, vibrant colors in a style influenced by indiginous mexican culture, as well as realism and symbolism. Frieda symbolically expresses her own pain in many of her works, which is one of the reasons I am drawn to her. She doesn't sugar-coat herself, or try and make herself look better on the canvas. Her inner feelings towards herself are expressed as her pain. When she was 6 years old, Frieda contracted Polio, which left her right leg looking thinner. A few years later she was in an accident which broke her spinal column, collar bone, ribs, and pelvis, also fracturing her right leg, dislocated her right foot, and shoulder. Her uterus was also impaled by a handrail, damaging reproductive ability. After the accident she learned how to walk again and recovered from her injuries, but she had relapses of extreme pain and had to undergo about 35 operations in her life because of the accident. Physical pain was a big part of Kahlo's life, and her paintings show a lot of what she was going through and how she identified herself..




Blog B)
I chose The green stripe(portrait of madam Matisse) by Henri Matisse.
Matisse was a Fauvist painter. When he painted his wife in this picture he was not trying to show his love for her, it was not about the expression on her face...but the expression of color. His style was painting expression, not passion. Now obviously Madam Matisse did not have a green stripe running down the center of her face. This is where Matisse gets into the expression of colors and how the light hit her face, there was a greenish tint...so he painted it. Matisse represents with the expression of color, rather than emotions.





Blog C)
I chose a Graffiti artist who goes by the name Mr Steven. I showed him working on a self portrait, and also a break dancer piece. The latter looks like one that could be quite easy to work with in illustrater. This medium is greffiti and the break dancer depicted relates well with the genre and group affiliated with graffiti artists, along with hip hop artists and deejays.
I am a huge fan of graffiti art. I never really acknowledged it until I dated a Graffiti artist from AKB. He really opened my eyes to what Graffiti was all about and how artistic it can be. The picture shown is one that uses a 2d design on the background then turning the focal point into a 3d object.