WELCOME!7th/8th Saturday School

Fall 2009

IDENTITY.

What is it?

Definition: “the condition of being oneself and not and not another and/or the collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known.”

Is your definition different?

What makes you an individual?

Self-Portrait• Definition: a pictorial portrait of oneself, done by oneself.

How is a Self-Portrait a way to show a person’s identity?

Check out these cool cats. . .

Self-Portrait

Artist:

Chuck Close

Chuck Close

Facts About Close:His works are huge!

This is kind of what we are going to be working on today -->

ARTIST - Frida Kahlo

Self-Portrait. 1940

Las Dos Fridas

Frida Kahlo1941

Shows her cultural past with her present self.

How does that helpexpress herinfluences on herIdentity?

Just some more Frida examples. . .

WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS GUY?

ARTIST: VINCENT VAN GOGH

SELF-PORTRAIT WITH STRAW HAT1887

The Painter in His Studio. Vermeer 17th century.

How did Vermeer’s last self-portrait differ from all the others we’ve seen.

Do you get a different view of his identity even compared to this other self-portrait he made?

Artist: Zhang Xiagogang. “Big Family”. 2003.

Zhang Xiagogang

These portraits are centered around the concept of family to define identity.

Pablo Picasso.