Portraiture

Portraiture

1. Physical image in society

   • Youth and Aging
     • ''will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful'' - Lana Del Rey
       • Messages and themes in current music
     • Decaying Youth
       • Shown on erosion of sculpture
         • Sculpture - not tried before, a risk to explore.
           • Clay, air-dry clay
   • Trends
     • What is considered attractive one minute and ugly the next
       • Weight contoversy
         • Weight gain poster from 30's - 50's.
         • Today many teenage and older women strive to be skinny.
       • Money making system
   • Celebrities and media
     • Women, men and how they are presented
       • Expectations
         • Vulnerability
           • Lee Price‘s poignant realist paintings of self-gratification thrust the viewer into private moments of indulgence. Painted from a bird’s eye view, the self-portraits depict the artist unabashedly consuming large quantities of junk food while lying supine in her bed or lounging in the bath. These works inevitably evoke the idea of guilty pleasure and bring up the complicated emotions at play in conversation surrounding body image and American women’s relationship to food.
             • Realistic painting
               • Oil paints/acrylic paints
               • Over head view
       • Different cultures
         • Different eras

2. Beauty

   • Conventional
     • Renaissance Painters
       • Presented people as e.g. rich and powerful (in a certain way).
     • Advertising world
     • Flawless skin, long shiny hair, big eyes, small ears, full lips, small nose, groomed eyebrows, long lashes...
   • Unconventional
     • Modified bodies
       • Piercings
         • Tattoos
           • Make up and clothes
             • ''Natural'' beauty.
         • Surgery
           • Scars
         • Hair colour/style
       • Messages behind them
     • Imperfections

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