Introduction
This assignment is about self portraits. Most people draw self – portraits to answer the question, Who am I? This question is also the main point about this assignment. A lot of people ask themselves who they really are, because in this world, it can be hard to stay yourself. Everybody wants to change the real you, the thing they don’t understand is that you can’t shape someone’s personality. I hope that after this assignment I will know more about the reasons of the self portraits, but also being able to answer the question myself.
The main question in this assignment is mainly about if making self portraits help people to understand themselves better. I think that art and writing are the ways to get to know yourself better. The way you paint or draw, and the colours that you use, may explain your personality. Everybody has his own way of creating a masterpiece and draws on his or her unique way.
I think the reason for making these self-portraits is that they want to know who they really are. The way you draw your self is the way you get to know yourself. If you draw big eyes, this explains about you that you are a curious person or an observer. By looking in detail at your self-portrait after your done you can learn a lot about yourself.
Of course artist have to refresh their self-portraits from time to time. This isn’t only because the outside changes, but this can also be about the changing of the inside. When you grow older your interests shall change, just like your way of clothing will. They might use other colours, which they feel more attracted to. When you are a child, you are mostly very energetic, this differs a lot when you are mature. The colours will became more calmer and wiser.
Vincent van Gogh is famous because of his self – portraits. Van Gogh has some obvious characteristics which occur is almost every painting of him. These characteristics is the way he uses thick brushstrokes and the way he uses complementary colours. Using complementary colours means that the background is the opposite colour of the colour of your T-shirt. The feelings he had were mostly explained in the background. Van Gogh was a Dutch artist. When looking at his portraits I always get the idea that he was really insecure. It was almost like he was scared of what the viewers thought. Other famous self-portrait artists are Gauguin and Judith Leyster. Judith Leyster is in my opinion a confident and creative woman. She isn’t scared of the opinion of other, and draws in her unique way. In all the painting you feel a sparkle of optimism. This may be the reason why she is so famous. Andy Warhol did is in a totally different direction. He used four images of himself, which were all the same pictures. In every image he pointed out a different side of him. Most people I know say that he is very superficial. But I don’t agree on this ! There is always a reason why you paint, draw or create yourself in another way. Maybe he only wanted to show people the other side of him, a side which he doesn’t show often. A self-portrait can impossibly be superficial, if it is the case, it isn’t a self – portrait.
Conclusion
The reason that artist draw themselves isn’t just about getting to know more about yourself. It is also about showing the other side of you. Some artist draw away their imperfection, just so they can be proud of their looks. But I think that being imperfect belongs to being a human being.
This assignment is about self portraits. Most people draw self – portraits to answer the question, Who am I? This question is also the main point about this assignment. A lot of people ask themselves who they really are, because in this world, it can be hard to stay yourself. Everybody wants to change the real you, the thing they don’t understand is that you can’t shape someone’s personality. I hope that after this assignment I will know more about the reasons of the self portraits, but also being able to answer the question myself.
The main question in this assignment is mainly about if making self portraits help people to understand themselves better. I think that art and writing are the ways to get to know yourself better. The way you paint or draw, and the colours that you use, may explain your personality. Everybody has his own way of creating a masterpiece and draws on his or her unique way.
I think the reason for making these self-portraits is that they want to know who they really are. The way you draw your self is the way you get to know yourself. If you draw big eyes, this explains about you that you are a curious person or an observer. By looking in detail at your self-portrait after your done you can learn a lot about yourself.
Of course artist have to refresh their self-portraits from time to time. This isn’t only because the outside changes, but this can also be about the changing of the inside. When you grow older your interests shall change, just like your way of clothing will. They might use other colours, which they feel more attracted to. When you are a child, you are mostly very energetic, this differs a lot when you are mature. The colours will became more calmer and wiser.
Vincent van Gogh is famous because of his self – portraits. Van Gogh has some obvious characteristics which occur is almost every painting of him. These characteristics is the way he uses thick brushstrokes and the way he uses complementary colours. Using complementary colours means that the background is the opposite colour of the colour of your T-shirt. The feelings he had were mostly explained in the background. Van Gogh was a Dutch artist. When looking at his portraits I always get the idea that he was really insecure. It was almost like he was scared of what the viewers thought. Other famous self-portrait artists are Gauguin and Judith Leyster. Judith Leyster is in my opinion a confident and creative woman. She isn’t scared of the opinion of other, and draws in her unique way. In all the painting you feel a sparkle of optimism. This may be the reason why she is so famous. Andy Warhol did is in a totally different direction. He used four images of himself, which were all the same pictures. In every image he pointed out a different side of him. Most people I know say that he is very superficial. But I don’t agree on this ! There is always a reason why you paint, draw or create yourself in another way. Maybe he only wanted to show people the other side of him, a side which he doesn’t show often. A self-portrait can impossibly be superficial, if it is the case, it isn’t a self – portrait.
Conclusion
The reason that artist draw themselves isn’t just about getting to know more about yourself. It is also about showing the other side of you. Some artist draw away their imperfection, just so they can be proud of their looks. But I think that being imperfect belongs to being a human being.
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