How has the concept of the self/ identity developed within

Art and visual culture?

Sarah Killen

IMAP Project Presentation

Visual Culture Theory As Doy (2005, p.22) notes ‘The true self of the

sitter is ultimately inaccessible through the image, however much the paint surface resembles external appearance’.

Mirzeoff (2002, P.3) describes visual culture as the ‘visual events in which information, meaning or pleasure is sought by the consumer in an interface with visual technology’.

‘Paintings, like digital applications, offer an experience, and perspective painting offered the same experience as the one now promised by virtual reality’ (Bolter, 2003, p.36).

Art Theory‘Transparency in painting (…) an aim to makes us

think we are looking at the physical world; it meant what computer graphics experts now call photorealism’ (Bolter, 2003, p.36).

‘The ways in which artwork is made are often read as expressions and traces of the individual subjectivity of the maker’ (Doy, 2005, p.7).

‘The portrait is an external object, a surface, an illusion – a fabrication of the artist’s skill’ (Doy, 2005, p.23).

Modern Art Theory Rush (1999, P.7) notes that this period of art developed an

‘experimental nature’, breaking away from traditional conventions and into new ways of perceiving the image.

Bolter (2003, p.64) identifies that a significant element within Modernism was the desire to ‘create a complex and striking image, to awaken us as viewers from the complacency of looking through the painting or design’.

Bolter (2003, p.64) notes how we identify with the world through the image, ‘how a painting functions to represent a world and how we as viewers become part of the process’.

Representation within Todays culture: Selfie culture

Grau (2003, p.3) notes that ‘over recent years, never before have we been exposed to so many different image worlds’

‘The desire to be in the picture’ (Grau, 2003, p.141)

‘In today's world meanings circulate visually, in addition to orally and textually. (Mirzeoff, 2002, P.15).

‘Robert Nanteuil, ‘the portrait should look as if it had been executed quickly, captured in a moment and ‘judged in an instant’ (Doy, 2005, p.25).

Understanding the selfie: Understanding the selfie: SurveySurveyhttp://goo.gl/forms/iQl8A0CsSDhttp://goo.gl/forms/iQl8A0CsSDHow often selfies are takenHow often selfies are takenSelfies are socialSelfies are socialPosing – exaggeration/ gesturesPosing – exaggeration/ gesturesEditing – Filters/ colours/ programmesEditing – Filters/ colours/ programmesSocial media- sharing the experienceSocial media- sharing the experienceThe right appearance The right appearance Constructed identity Constructed identity

Mirror Mirror: Reflection of the self

Link between Painting, modern art and

Selfie Culture

Parmigianino (1524), ‘Self-portrait in a

Convex Mirror’

Lucy Schwob (1928),‘Self-Portrait with

Mirror’

Reflected selfie

Practice Piece

Conclusion

Constructed nature of the identity

Identifying the impact of technology

Mass experimentation

Animation Medium

Peer group reception

Reflection

Planning/ time scale

Extend the practice piece

Postmodern/ Video art

Deeper look into the concept of the self

Visual communication of Identity

Reception of practice piece

BibliographyBarnett, E., and Bolt, B., 2010. Practice as research,

approaches to creative arts enquiry. I.B. Tauris and Co. Ltd.

Bolter, D., J., 2003. Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency. MIT Press Cambridge, MA, USA

Doy, M., G., 2005. Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture, London: I.B. Tauris and Co. Ltd

Grau, O., 2003. Virtual art: from illusion to immersion. Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press.

Mirzeoff, N., 2002. The subject of visual culture. In, Mirzeoff, N., ed. The visual culture reader. London: Routledge

Rush, M., 1999. New Media in Later 20th Century Art. London. Thames and Hudson

Images Pablo Picasso, 1909, Femme assise (Sitzende Frau) Available at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso#mediaviewer/File:Pablo_Picasso,_1909,_Femme_assise_(Sitzende_Frau),_oil_on_canvas,_100_x_80_cm,_Staatliche_Museen_zu_Berlin,_Neue_Nationalgalerie.jpg (Accessed 11/11/14)

Pablo Picasso, 1913, Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva) Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso#mediaviewer/File:Femme_en_chemise_assise_dans_un_fauteuil.jpg (Accessed 11/11/14)

Pablo Picasso, 1937, The Weeping Woman, Available at: http://www.pablopicasso.org/the-weeping-woman.jsp (Accessed 11/11/14)

Leonardo Da Vinci, 1504, The Mona Lisa, Available at: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonardodavinci.net%2Fthe-mona-lisa.jsp&h=0&w=0&tbnid=MD0n5h8Cdkt_kM&zoom=1&tbnh=276&tbnw=182&docid=ljFRl6vQ27y2yM&tbm=isch&ei=vg1iVIqaHK-P7Aa23YD4CQ&ved=0CAQQsCUoAA (Accessed 11/11/14)

Leonardo Da Vinci, 1486, Virgin of the Rocks, Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks (Accessed 11/11/14)

Leonardo Da Vinci, St. John the Baptist, 1516, Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_the_Baptist_(Leonardo) (Accessed 11/11/14)

Lucy Schwob (1928)‘Self-Portrait with Mirror’ Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun (Accessed 11/11/14)

Parmigianino 1524, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror. Available at: http://www.artble.com/artists/parmigianino/paintings/self-portrait_in_a_convex_mirror (Accessed 11/11/14)

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