Self Portraits
I think an artist's self portrait is a delightful art-form, and these three are among my favorites. The center image is Kathy Carvellas. See her work here.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
I think an artist's self portrait is a delightful art-form, and these three are among my favorites. The center image is Kathy Carvellas. See her work here.
4 Comments:
Hmmm. Interesting and disturbing and thought-provoking all at once. I guess that fits my definition of good art.
I'd love to hear more about what you see that is disturbing. For me, disturbing was when my photography professor assigned a each class member a nude self-portrait. That definitely gave me the creeps. He said something about needing to "confront ourselves" before we could be good photographers.
In these cases, I think it's the view I get of the artist - it feels very personal and kind of like spying. I couldn't give that much of myself away in my art.
It's not a bad thing, though.
I'm very glad my high school photography teacher didn't give us that sort of assignment - he was a free spirit, but not that free!
Yes, it is very personal! I feel exposed with every piece of artwork I put out there for people to see....
My professor probably was not a free spirit, but probably a dirty old man.LOL. He couldn't have gotten away with it in high school.
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