Unit 4 RecordUnit 4 RecordIdentity

Self Portrait

How have artists used self portraits to record their identity?

What mediums have they used? e.g. Paint, sculpture, photography, video...

How have recording your identity in the form of a self portrait changed throughout history? e.g. cave prints, courtesan portraits, using the camera obscurer, using photography, film...

What makes up your identity that you would like to visually record? E.g. Events, people, places, hobbies, interests?

Frida Khalo

Makes her interests a key part of her paintings.

Chuck close

uses photography and then projects image onto canvas to get life like realism

Picasso

Changes features of the face to form an abstract self portrait

Alberto Giacometti

Creates surreal figure

Gustav Klimt

Uses figures to showcase textiles and textures

Jenny Saville

Uses layered paint to explore feminist issues such as fat and body image

Bill viola

Uses video art to explore issues of his identity e.g. Birth, life and death

Sculpture