October 30
Theme #6: Non-Self Self-Portrait

 

 

Project
Instructions
Supplies
Collaboration    
  Group together with 3 or 4 other students (please do NOT group with your friends) Student's choice
  Collectively decide on a subject for your drawing and media  
  The challenge is to create a work that has a clear message and that successfully combines each artist’s style into a collective, unified piece  
     
Drawing Machine    
  Create or use a tool to draw Student's choice
  Make a device that does the drawing for you?  
  Adapt a non-drawing tool to assist you in the drawing process?  
     
Non-Self Self-Portrait    
  Create a self-portrait without drawing an image of yourself Student's choice
  This should be a personally meaningful work that expresses something about your individuality  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Examples and Inspiration

 

 

Artists have long used their own image to explore their media and to express themselves personally.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frida Kahlo. The Broken Column. 1944.
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Third edition. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

Diego Velazquez. Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor). 1656.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1638-39.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vincent van Gogh. Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear. 1889.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

We will use a couple of exercises to help you get in touch with your unique self and your personal, inner vision...

 

 

 

 

 

A collaborative drawing

 

 

 

 

A drawing machine

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcus Harvey. Myra. 1995.  9' X 11'.
Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carolee Schneemann.  Up To and Including Her Limits.  1976.  Trance drawing, crayon on paper. 8 X 6 ft.
Weintraub, Linda, Arthur Danto and Thomas McEvilley. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s - 1990s. Litchfield, CT: Art Insights Inc., 1996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denise Johnson. Vibrator Shoe.  1997. Permanent ink on vellum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A contemporary approach to self-portraiture is to express the self without portraying the physical body of the artist.  This is a kind of non-self self-portraiture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Felix Gonzales-Torres.  Untitled.  1991.
Bartman, William, Tim Rollins, Jan Avgikos, and Susan Cahan.  Felix Gonzalez-Torres. New York: Art Pres, 1983.

 

 

 

 

 

Felix Gonzales-Torres.  Untitled (Placebo).  1991.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Felix Gonzales-Torres.  Untitled.  1989.
Bartman, William, Tim Rollins, Jan Avgikos, and Susan Cahan.  Felix Gonzalez-Torres. New York: Art Pres, 1983.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raymond Pettibon. Installation in Germany. 1998.
Riemschneider, Burkhard, and Uta Grosenick. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Taschen, Koln. 1999.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andy Warhol. 100 Cans. 1962. Oil on canvas.
Getlein, Mark. Gilbert's Living With Art. Sixth edition. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Hammons.  Higher Goals.  1986.
Weintraub, Linda, Arthur Danto and Thomas McEvilley. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s - 1990s. Litchfield, CT: Art Insights Inc., 1996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Wegman. Mother's Day. 1997.
Wegman, William. Puppies. Hyperion, New York. 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louise Lawler.  Pollock and Tureen (Arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Connecticut).  1984.
Riemschneider, Burkhard and Uta Grosenick.  Art at the Turn of the Millennium.  Koln:  Taschen, 1999.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomie Arai.  Self-Portrait with Fan.  1992.
Weintraub, Linda, Arthur Danto and Thomas McEvilley. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s - 1990s. Litchfield, CT: Art Insights Inc., 1996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Rauschenberg. Canyon. 1959.
Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000.

 

 

 

 

Robert Rauschenberg.  Untitled (Man with the white shoes).  1954.
Rauschenberg, Robert .  Robert Rauschenberg: Combines.  Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Rauschenberg.  Untitled (Man with the white shoes) (detail).  1954.
Rauschenberg, Robert .  Robert Rauschenberg: Combines.  Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jasper Johns. Painted Bronze. 1960.
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Twelfth ed. Vol. 1. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2005. 2 vols.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artemisia Gentileschi. Susanna and the Elders. 1610.
Cumming, Robert. Great Artists. New York: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1998.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ashley Bickerton.  Tormented Self-Portrait (Susie at Arles).  1988.
Riemschneider, Burkhard and Uta Grosenick.  Art at the Turn of the Millennium.  Koln:  Taschen, 1999.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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