Catherine Ishino
TBC 2Project 1 : Self Portrait Lecture Notes
Week 1: The Self Portrait
Project 1
Make a self-portrait of yourself as a designer. Reveal what is unique about your self in this capacity.
Must include: your full name, be at minimum 15 secs- no longer than 30 secs, show some identifiable physical feature of your self. Execute this in your own graphic voice or style.
Definition?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-portrait
Art critic Galina Vasilyeva-Shlyapina separates two basic forms of the self-portrait: “professional” portraits, in which the artist is depicted at work, and “personal” portraits, which reveal moral and psychological features. She also proposes a more detailed taxonomy:
(1) the “insertable” self-portrait, where the artist inserts his or her own portrait into, for example, a group of characters related to some subject;
(2) the “prestigious, or symbolic” self-portrait, where an artist depicts him- or herself in the guise of a historical person or religious hero;
(3) the “group portrait” where artist is depicted with members of family or other real persons;
(4) the “separate or natural” self-portrait, where the artist is depicted alone. However it might be thought these classes are rather rigid; many portraits manage to combine several of them.[18]
Visual references:
Ray and Charles Eames
Sagmeister
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/index.php?/film/watch/sagmeister08/
La Jetee
Modern Living
http://ml.hoogerbrugge.com/
DVDs
Keith Godard
http:www.catherineishino.org
oral histories
3 Generation of Chinese Designers
http:www.catherineishino.org
oral histories
min wang
http:www.catherineishino.org
oral histories
internment (2nd frame)
Other references:
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/S/selfportraituk/making_selfportrait_01.html
http://books.google.ca/books?id=1oTCrtFm1X0C&dq=what+is+a+self+portrait%3F&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Na6KVGf1CA&sig=n940osarkXmCXtoVGfsGoWb50RU&hl=en&ei=xHlDS-feLpLSlAfTt_WcBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false
http://selfportrait.net/
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ivy/selfportrait/intro.html
