MONA RICA ...
"Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself"
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IM SORRYYYY IT SAID TO MAKE A SELF PORTRAIT WITH AN INSPIRED ARTIST RIGHT?!>!?!>
THIS IS JUST A PARODY FORGIVE ME I'LL MAKE A BETTER ONE WITH ALL THE CRITERIA NEEDED OKAY? HEHE u - u
The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.(source)
Ahem.So here's a little re-update on my research also what I know about "Self Portraits"So what do I understand about self portraits? To me I think of it as direct as it can be. A portrait of yourself. May it be an extravagant portrait of how you see and imagine yourself, wild and bizarre or perhaps you stick to reality by realism. I've tend to ponder sometimes why would someone paint a portrait of themselves? Self admiration? Vanity? Or something that you could leave behind, to prove they exist? Perhaps during the old times, before the Industrial Revolution (before 1500s) and a self portrait is the only way to capture an image of something, or a person. Then again, whatever reason the artist might think he or she had for the painting, with art as the writing, the act of creation always reveals something about the creator. The self-portrait becomes the reflection of their own identity, thus the awakening the awakening of its artistic values.Ta-daaaaaaaaa.
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Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Think about a ‘tormented artist’ and one of the first names that come to mind is likely to be Van Gogh. This Dutch post-impressionist is probably as well known for the ‘cutting-his-own-ear-off’ incident (which may or may not have happened as reported) as he is for his considerable body of work. One of the characteristics of his paintings is the sunny yellow ambiance that infuses them. Van Gogh indulged heavy in absinthe, a drink known to produce ‘yellow vision’ in addicts. The drug digitalis, which he is also believed to have taken, would also produce ‘yellow vision’. Interestingly and strangely enough, Van Gogh never seems to look directly at his ‘audience’ in his self-portraits.(source)
Claude Oscar Monet (1840 – 1926)
Monet was a founder of the French impressionist style of painting, which is based on the artist conveying his perceptions of the subject rather than a precise likeness. The term ‘impressionism’ is in fact derived from the title of Monet’s painting ‘Impression, Sunrise’. As his career developed Monet was plagued by cataracts in his eyes. These reduce vision and can make things appear blurry and ‘out-of-focus’. It is hard to know how much his signature style of softly blurred images owes to artistic vision and how much to his cataract problems. In later life was he interpreting the world in an impressionistic way or simply reflecting the distorted version of it that he actually saw ?(source)
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945)And here, as they say, is a man who needs no introduction. I think we’re all pretty familiar with his main claims to fame (or infamy) but one of his lesser known aspirations was to be an artist. This watercolor is thought to be the earliest self-portrait by Adolf Hitler, painted in 1910 when the future Fuhrer was 21 and struggling to make his mark on the art world. The figure is strangely anonymous, with no nose or mouth yet Hitler was keen to identify himself by daubing a cross and the initials AH above it. The loneliness of someone who cannot connect with the world around him or the people in it rests on the surface of the self-portrait. Perhaps this was just a romantic vision Hitler had of himself, or perhaps it was a genuine expression of a deeper alienation. Gasps, cause I never knew. Silly me :3(source)
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LAUGHS ON THE CONTRARY, I did a pretty bad job for a first work in class for the self portrait. Frankly speaking, it was not one of my best days. I'll make up for that I promise!!
So, we were suppose to incorporate 'nature' into our self-portraits and yeahhh.. bad job. nuff said.
A new semester means a new experience
I'm looking forward to it
NEW : im dying.. help.
This blog will be mostly focused onto my subjects this semester, so necessary posts will be posted, and unnecessary ones... will probably not be posted. Unless I'm bored. Which I always am. 8D
I have many names...
I go by Erica in the real life
Perhaps you've heard of my other names, particularly online name ;D
Take a guess~
I like to draw anime, also drawing in general. I can't draw nature or landscapes, or backgrounds or buildings. Its either I never practice, I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaay too lazy or unwillingness :')
I capspam alot, it feels like I'm shouting don't it? WELL IM JUST EXCITED
WHAT'S WRONG WITH EVERYONE.
I keyboard smash when I am excited or overwhelmed.
it goes something like this
"jdhfkjsgdfhjsdgfjhsdgfjhsdfjsdfjahsbdhasdbjasdajsd
bajsdbszdbzsHAHAHAAHjsdjhgasjdhgasjhdgasd
iuhuygfrqwehkawakwlasdLOLASJAGSJHASAHAHAH"
/COUGH/
well yeah ;)
i like using emotes .. not the basic ones like :) :P :-) mainly to express my feels, feels boring or too serious without it.
Also, emotes like that are so generic.. and unpretty...TO ME. dont be offended cause you use it though muahaha
OEO or 8D and OTL is what I use mostly
