"Portrait of Mind"
Exhibition Text
"Portrait of Mind"
Acrylic on Canvas
36in x 36in
November 10th, 2017
This Painting was inspired and created by the Abstract Expressionist movement and the central idea came from "Bullfight" Elaine de Kooning and "Untitled" by Jean-Michel Basquiat and his painting of himself helped me create my piece titled "Portrait of Mind." This piece was made to depict how all of my true feelings and emotions are within me and aren't show from the outside. How the stress, anxiety, sorrow, devastation and many more personal feelings are not shown from me in the outside.I am not the type of person to be expressive of my feeling and instead bottling them up.
Acrylic on Canvas
36in x 36in
November 10th, 2017
This Painting was inspired and created by the Abstract Expressionist movement and the central idea came from "Bullfight" Elaine de Kooning and "Untitled" by Jean-Michel Basquiat and his painting of himself helped me create my piece titled "Portrait of Mind." This piece was made to depict how all of my true feelings and emotions are within me and aren't show from the outside. How the stress, anxiety, sorrow, devastation and many more personal feelings are not shown from me in the outside.I am not the type of person to be expressive of my feeling and instead bottling them up.
Artist Inspiration
This piece "Untitled" by Jean-Michel Basquiat inspired this piece "Portrait of Mind" because how I use the expressionism movement inspired by the ideas of my artist inspirations and how their techniques are used to convey their meaning through their piece. My piece was mainly inspired by "Untitled" by Jean-Michel Basquiat and his piece defining the culture of Basquiat and in relevance to his meaning within his piece my piece "Portrait of Mind" is the identity of me and how I hide it within me who I truly am. My piece meaning is how my true indentity and who I am is being hidden within myself along with my inner emotions. Basquiat's piece "Untitled" inspired me the most with his entire piece and how he portrays identity with the use of a skull along with a very obscure use of brush strokes. I used Basquiat's use of brush strokes to create my piece and used the abstract use of colors and technique of it from my other artist inspiration "Bullfight" by Elaine de Kooning. Her use of a solid background along with the strokes of color to create her piece is what I used when making my piece "Portrait of Mind."
Planning
Brainstorming/Planning Sketches
Brainstorming/Planning Sketches
When planning my piece i was contemplating how I would go by making it look with the expressionism movement and my artist inspiration and integrating their methods and ideas within my piece.
Painting Process
When creating this piece my Original idea was to make it like an Rorschach test with symmetrical balance but then I realized I wouldn't be using the use of color my artist inspirations have within their pieces. Then I took the black and white and then I put pink over the black and white. The to create the psychotic vibe within my piece I took a blending palette knife and scratched the pink paint within lines and having the black and white show underneath the pink and having that I then painted the background black. Then I went over the scratched lines with blue paint and that was my background for my piece where i would go over it with my main component of my piece. I wanted to not make the skull look realistic I wanted it to look very disproportional and so I stretched the dimensions of my skull when creating the outline with white paint. then going over the white outline with blue along it. then using many shades of red, yellow, brown, pink, blue, black, and white to create a abstract of colors within my expressionism art movement inspired piece. after all of it i defined the facial features with black and then white afterwards.
The Meaning
The meaning within my piece “Portrait of Mind” is how I contain all of my emotions within myself and who I am on the outside isn’t my true identity or who I am. Around people I get anxiety when being myself around people because I have always been put down when being myself and I’m very emotional and so that why there is so many vibrant colors within my piece cause all those represent each emotion I have and their intensity of how much they can affect me. This piece is the representation of my inner self and what it looks like, bizarre and convoluted with a crazy cluster and mess. This is how I feel a lot of times where I don't want to be insecure with who I am and so I keep how I feel to myself. The exaggerated use of my brush strokes represents how overwhelmed and messy I am with all these emotion I would keep up. Now I have learned to express myself and so the abstract butterfly in the corner represents the feeling of relief and relaxation. The symbols above the skull is chinese for “inner strength” which I have now obtained from god watching over me as he always has been.
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Experimentation
For my experimentation I wanted to add some culture within my piece where the inner self is quite important within their culture. and so I added it with the Chinese symbols representing inner strength and how I have embraced it and learned to have guidance and to be successful which is why I painted the symbols.
Reflection
This piece is one of my least appealing to me but has a lot of potential and is really connected towards myself at a personal level. My identity of best pieces that i have created in my opinion. It is very simple of a piece but that is what makes it better to me is its overwhelming features. I wish i didn't have the distractions to hold me back. I want to have the motivation to be successful and want to have a future i hate not putting effort within my life and wanting the best for me and i have all my life just been pushing it off and it all just bottled up inside me. I feel like i wont make it in life if i keep going the way I am i want to show pride within my work i have the potential and so I need to get my life together and show concern and portray my abilities that i have and not feel like i wont make it in life. How my idea turned out it was more than how I originally imagined it I would make it look less sloppy if i could but there a part of me that wants it to look like that to convey my meaning more. and so i need to find a balance between the effort and look of how it is depicted within my piece still keeping the feeling of cluster and stress. if I could improve something on my method for my piece I would improve the blending and brush strokes, this is a usual problem in many of my pieces and i must learn to put more paint on my brush and have clean solid lines within my pieces.
Critique"Portrait of Mind" reflects on my artist inspirations and how I created my piece through using their pieces and ideas intertwined with my own ideas. I used their Expressionism movement and methods of design to create my piece and how its use of colors are sloppy but is does so to give it more of a stressful panicking feeling when looking at my piece. if it looked neat and clean with the brush strokes it would be less significant towards my meaning and how I could represent my anxiety.
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Connecting to ACT
1. Identify cause and effect relationships between your inspiration and your artwork.
In my piece "Portrait of Mind" that was inspired by "Untitled" by Jean-Michel Basquiat I applied his brush strokes and use of structure to represent his cultural significance and identity as i do also within my piece.
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The author's approach in connection with "Bullfight" Elaine de Kooning piece is that she used Abstract Expressionism and represented theses experiences through the use of color and line and brush strokes to create a overall picture.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
That the use of lines can be used to create emotions and feelings throughout the piece.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central theme of my piece is that the technique of your brush and the stokes and lines created and their representation within the piece.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
when researching my inspiration of Basquiat and Kooning is I looking further into how they used the Expressionism art movement and how it influences their art and their meanings for them as well.
In my piece "Portrait of Mind" that was inspired by "Untitled" by Jean-Michel Basquiat I applied his brush strokes and use of structure to represent his cultural significance and identity as i do also within my piece.
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The author's approach in connection with "Bullfight" Elaine de Kooning piece is that she used Abstract Expressionism and represented theses experiences through the use of color and line and brush strokes to create a overall picture.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
That the use of lines can be used to create emotions and feelings throughout the piece.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central theme of my piece is that the technique of your brush and the stokes and lines created and their representation within the piece.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
when researching my inspiration of Basquiat and Kooning is I looking further into how they used the Expressionism art movement and how it influences their art and their meanings for them as well.
Citations
“Elaine-De-Kooning-Bullfight.jpg.” Denver Art Museum, denverartmuseum.org/file/elaine-de-kooning-bullfightjpg.
Basquiat painting fetches record $149m at New York auction. www.bing.com/cr?IG=3DC38493AB674BD281E8DDEAF4F40721&CID=135086B16BF96CFD360E8D8A6AFF6DC5&rd=1&h=TjKklYrhHLdGRIRN2rPu-R0VcQGEfOyuxyJfdHlH5oQ&v=1&r=http%3a%2f%2fwww.abc.net.au%2fnews%2f2017-05-19%2fbasquiat-painting-fetches-record-149mn-at-new-york-auction%2f8541480&p=DevEx,5040.1.
Basquiat painting fetches record $149m at New York auction. www.bing.com/cr?IG=3DC38493AB674BD281E8DDEAF4F40721&CID=135086B16BF96CFD360E8D8A6AFF6DC5&rd=1&h=TjKklYrhHLdGRIRN2rPu-R0VcQGEfOyuxyJfdHlH5oQ&v=1&r=http%3a%2f%2fwww.abc.net.au%2fnews%2f2017-05-19%2fbasquiat-painting-fetches-record-149mn-at-new-york-auction%2f8541480&p=DevEx,5040.1.