A “selfie” is a self-portrait photograph, usually captured with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone. Selfies are frequently posted on social networking sites like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and Tumblr. They are usually random, and are commonly taken either with a camera held at arm’s length or a monopod, or in a mirror. The term “selfie” was explained by photographer Jim Krause in 2005, despite photos in the selfie type
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I is a surreal and superimposed self portrait of Wanda Wulz and of a cat. These two photographs come together and create a face of a woman who is half-feline and half-human. As the picture progresses from the right side to the left, the woman acquires more and more feline characteristics such as fur, whiskers, and a cat nose. Wulz’s primary intention was probably to perfectly match up the facial features of the cat and woman to compose a believable, fluid portrait. The emphasis in this photo is on
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Self-Portraits Understanding the reason behind self-portraits can be as complicated as understanding ones self. Self-portraits can be the complete embodiment of an artist or his or her own reflection of self. Does anyone’s self-portrait really represent a true reflection of that individual? I would have to say no. A famous painter that I have chosen to discuss the concept of self-portraits is Rembrandt. Rembrandt was- Often more concerned with character and expression than likens and public image
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to explain a little about how the characteristics and factors are reflected in these pieces of art. The Stone Breakers was a painting done by a French painter named Gustave Courbet. Gustave was well-known for his work of arts of still lives, self-portraits, females, common men workers, landscapes and many other common places. This painting was done in 1849 and is about hundred sixty-five years old. Addressed as the pioneer of the Realist movement Gustave set a unique artistic movement which caused
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me, Titian. I have been asked by a fellow colleague about my reasoning behind painting my self-portrait. It took me many ages to ponder this question. Was it vain of me to paint a picture of myself? Or was I simply trying to preserve my image for years to come so that future generations could see the type of artist that I am? I finally have come to a conclusion Diary. The reason I have painted my self-portrait is because I did indeed want people in the years to come to know about me. I wanted them
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I decided to take the task of producing my own self portrait as a challenge to work through and convert old baby footage. As an only child and the daughter of an artist, my childhood, or at least the earlier stages of my childhood were fairly idealistic, as is documented very well in my home-baby-videos and photos. The footage ends around the age of 6 or 7 as the life of the woman who captured the 72 plus hours of footage began to deal with her own battles and our life became a little less charming
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humans are most encephalized 大脑发育完全的 6. Explanation for why humans are social/ cultural · Complex social worlds led to a need for successful navigation of complex relationship · More socially adept primates attracted more mates, accrued more resources, and protected offspring better · Humans are the largest groups, and people are more interested in each other’s activities. Humans do more cultural learning. 7. Evoked culture | Transmitted culture | 1. Ecology evokes a particular
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community. Her black and white, portrait style images are a mainstream medium that present her subjects in a neutral manner. Activist photography, a subcategory of documentary photography, often pushes the lines of presenting a point of view or cause and ‘othering’. I first became interested in activist photography when we studied Shelby Adams. I believe his activist intents are clouded, maybe even completely discounted, by his personal motivations as an artist and the cultural stereo-types documented
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She was an intelligent female in a society that wanted women to be pretty, submissive wives and mothers. She struggled with cultural demands of her gender in a time when women were demanding a change in their role. All these aspects of her life, and more, affected her art. She was a modern woman but her art had an indigenous background. Her most common genre was self-portrait and through a dramatic view of herself, she was capable of showing her view of the world. Frida was an active member of global
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Feminist scholar Linda Nochlin explains that "art is not a free autonomous activity of a super-endowed individual…but rather… occurs in a social situation, is an integral element of social structure, and is mediated and determined by specific and definable social institutions".[1] While art functions as a gateway for personal creativity and expression, it inevitably carries the influence of a far greater context outside the artist himself. Across cultures, time periods, and movements, art has presented
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