The Big Self Portrait

The main topic of the snapshot autobiography is having student be able to think like a historian. Historians don’t include every major detail when telling a key event in time. They include what is the most important and leave certain events out without taking away from the entire story. When students are creating their own autobiography, they are learning decision making skills by having several events that make up their story, but also being able to narrow this key events down to only a few while still effective telling their story. In their inquiry lesson, the students are presented with multiple perspectives and point of views of all parties involved in the inquiry question asked. From there, they are refining their hypothesis and leaving in only the main attributes to effectively answer the inquiry question in their final thesis statement. By having an opportunity to have a master list up on the board where students are adding to their hypothesis. The class is more of a community by being able to openly share their ideas and thoughts with one another after each data set. In the seminar that the students are participating in, they are understanding the main purpose of a seminar and the attributes to have it be engaging. By giving the students the text in advanced, they are being familiar with the text and can have ideas and questions ready before the seminar begins.

In his book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman (1959) focuses on the self as a staged production in which people actively present themselves to different audiences one encounters. To bolster his conceptualization, Goffman used an interesting metaphor of “all the world’s a stage” (1959, 254). This, he terms as a “dramaturgical approach” (Goffman 1959, 240) in which an actor puts on a show for others; drawing analogies between human behaviors and the theater. Goffman (1959) likens the individual to an actor on stage performing for and with other individuals involved in the situation. Three types of space exist for the actor to perform on, to enact the self, and to interact with others: the front stage, the backstage, the outer region. Goffman (1959) utilizes specific dramaturgical terms such as performance, teams, front and back regions, sign-vehicles, and highlights the process of dramatic realization. These terms will be discussed in the following sections.

In presenting a theory about myself as a leader, I will attempt to draw conclusions about my strengths and weakness as a leader based on the things learned in this class. I will speculate on a reflective leadership best-self-portrait through my work experiences that draw on my interpersonal resources for vision. Recognizing my talents and shortcomings will help develop both micro and macro levels of resource development needed to reach my full potential.

1. Figure 5.1, Shy Glance by Dawn Marie Jingagian. Acrylic on canvas, 1976. This self-portrait is quiet interesting compared to others by more skilled artist. The brushstrokes that the artist use, and low value and intensity of the hues make the work of art appear flat, with little or no depth. As the textbook describes, it’s difficult to make out what is ground and what is figure, I think this feature adds a sense of playfulness and fun which isn’t usually seen in self-portraits.

Brett whiteley’s self portrait in the studio was a realism painting and stretch the definition of portraiture. I think that the artwork is set in Brett Whiteley's studio with his furniture and his other artworks around him. I think that this painting feels calm.

Lucy Grealy tells a story about not fitting in, unbearable pain that takes up residence in one's head as loneliness and confusion, questioning what things mean, being scared and lost in your family, enduring intense physical pain, and most importantly, figuring out who you are. Lucy had no idea she might die, even though the survival rate for Ewing's sarcoma was only five percent. She does not present her parents as overly afraid for her life, either. Her autobiography is not a story about the fear of death, but about such courage and anguish. Lucy shows how she falls under the spell of her disability, allowing it to control her life and dictate her future to a greater extent than it would otherwise. Having a disability means that

Chuck Close Chuck Close, a visual artist who used inventive techniques to paint photo realistic portraits of the human face. From growing up with severe dyslexia to a rare spinal artery collapse that left him paralyzed, Chuck Close overcame all of his obstacles and continued to paint and create portraits throughout his career. Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940, in Monroe, Washington. Leslie Durward Close, Mildred Wagner Close, and brother Martin Close were a big influence in his early life.

Chuck Close is an american artist known for his realism portraits that are about 9 feet tall. He has faced many challenges in his life including dyslexia and eventually becomimg paralysed from the neck down. He believes that these challenges have made him a stronger person and artist. As he said, “Almost every decision I've made as an artist is an outcome of my particular learning disorders.”

His work of the portraits is often associated with photographic realism movements in which he blurred the distinction between painting and photography that had never been done. It is more interesting considering that Close couldn’t recognize faces due to his illness and he could be able to create a work replicating the particular details of his selected faces. Close continue to search for his own signature style by experimenting with alternative forms and materials. After close moved to Manhattan, New York, he taught at the School of Visual Arts and married a former student, Leslie Rose. Despite the time that Process art was popular, he started working with photographs in 1966 taking black-and-white pictures of a young woman to use in a study for a reclining nude. Close work from photographs by cutting into a grid and transferred onto a bigger and longer canvas forming one of his famous works, The Big Nude (1967). It is a female nude image that is an abstract and a figurative

All these pieces have different designs in them. His use of color has to be significant so one piece does not overshadow the other pieces. Chuck Close is from Monroe, Washington. He lived there until he went to college at the University of Washington. After college at the University of Washington he went to Yale for a Masters in Fine Arts. He now lives in New York City and Long Island. Close has horrible learning disabilities which made school extremely hard for him. Art was the one thing that he could do. When he was 11 he got sick, he in bed for almost a year and art was always something he did. Both of Chucks parents were artist and growing up he was surrounded by art. His use of color helped the development of the inkjet printer. Close uses oil paints and large canvas. In general his works are very intricate. There are made up of lots of little pieces to make one large painting. One famous painting by Close is of the former president Bill Clinton. It is a portrait of the former president. This work is of the former president. It is made up of lots of different pieces, the background is mostly blue and red shapes in different designs. Movement is a constant piece throughout this piece because all pieces have different colors and different shapes inside of them. The meaning behind this piece and what the artist is trying to tell us is all the small details about Clinton's face. This artwork influences my views on art because it shows all the different colors in one small

At the first glimpse of Brittany Lee’s - the person who I am doing my Portrait of A Writer on - picture, I saw three separate of very simple images of how she prepares herself with her process of writing. Similar to me, but more vague, she has drawn her first image a stick figure self-portrait of floating Z’s coming out of her head, the second image of gathering drinks and snacks, and third image of stick-figured Brittany setting up her work station. From these images of Brittany’s drawings, it is simply understood that Brittany’s process is starts off pretty different from others, because she allows herself to relax for a couple of hours to build up her energy, have food prepared on the side to snack on, like brain food, and forcing herself

Lucy Grealy tells a story about not fitting in, unbearable pain that takes up residence in one’s head as loneliness and confusion, questioning what things mean, being scared and lost in your family, enduring intense physical pain, and most importantly, figuring out who you are. Lucy had no idea she might die, even though the survival rate for Ewing’s sarcoma was only five percent. She does not present her parents as overly afraid for her life, either. Her autobiography is not a story about the fear of death, but about such courage and anguish. Lucy shows how she falls under the spell of her disability, allowing it to control her life and dictate her future to a greater extent than it would otherwise. Having a disability means that

For most couples, its all consuming, instant adoration. But for me and my wife, it was affection at first sound. She called me at 2 am, and I happened to be remaining by the telephone, so she vented to me, the faceless outsider. We wound up talking for hours, knowing each other, and becoming hopelessly

After doing my Exploration of Aesthetics Paper last week, I decide to take it a step further. In my exploring the night sounds, it was hard to focus because of the loud sounds of the cicadas. I really didn’t know much about the insects except they come every 17 years and are really loud and everyone I know didn’t like them, so I didn’t because I don’t like bugs. However, a friend of mine posted a video and I watched it on cicadas. It changed my whole view on how I look at the insects at this point. They are beautiful creature and tell a story just like humans. We all have purpose in life and so does the cicadas. They live underground for 17 years. On a warm night they emerge and surface the land. They connect with each other, just like little children wanting to play with their friends after not seeing them for a long time. Then they transform to begin their final life on earth. The process is like giving birth as a human or letting out the lost soul and finding god for the first time. They become adults and search for their mates when shell hardens. Synchronized choir, we all call noise, is their mating call. They are finding love for the first time. They come in all colors, it’s sad watching the video

Self-portraits have been used by artists for centuries to explore aspects of the self. They are the subjects they know best and artists have reflected this through their treatment of media, subject matter and techniques. Two artists who explore aspects of their personality and life experiences in their self-portraits are Frida Kahlo and Ben Quilty. Many of their artistic techniques can be derived from the same origins. Whilst there are similarities in self-portraits by any artist usually, you will find differences the norm. After all, this is what makes art and art form.