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Size: Unknown Meduim: Oil paint, Paint pored and paint brushes Completion: October 2021 Exhibition text: My inspiration for this project was "Girl With The Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer. The main point and theme for this project was to create a self-portrait using a comparison to light to dark colors that makes my self pop out like how vermeer created "Girl With The Pearl Earring". My artwork connects with my inspiration a little differently like the meaning of cultures, amount of paint, and emotion. |
Inspiration:
My inspiration is the Girl with the pearl earring by Johannes Vermeer. This painting is based off of a 16 year old dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house. The Girl with the Pearl Earring is from Delft but she had dressed up like a Turkish woman, in her culture they don't wear headdresses. Vermeer depicts an imaginary young woman in a exotic dress with a large earring. This young woman looks to the side looking like she's speechless. Vermeer uses light to dark colors to capture her pale skin tone. |
Planning:
For the first page of my planning I sketched and explained what was going to be my project until I had changed my mind based on the process and my experimentation. It was about my culture and how sometimes I wear my Russian clothes. In the second photo was the process of the 17 year old me in Turkish clothes that could relate to my inspiration Vermeer. I explained in my process how it relates and how Turkish culture impacts myself.
Experimentation:
For my experimentation I've painted the same painting as Johannes Vermeer. Now it was just to get the Idea of the details and how to paint his piece. Now wjat had helped me for my self-portrait was to blend in my piece for the hair piece and the dress. I've keept the same lighter colors like Vermeer uses except its in acrylic. |
Process:
In the beginning of my project I sketched out what I was going to paint on my board. Since I wanted to keep the same culture that Johannes Vermeer uses, I started to paint the head part first. Instead of using light to dark colors I've decided to do most of my painting dark with a tad of white. Instead how Johannes uses light to dark. Now instead of making the other self-portrait my main painting I've decided to do this painting instead since there's more in common with interust with the artist I have chosen. |
In the second photo I have completed the black background and most of the shirt. I was struggling a little bit with the brown to light gold part. It seemed like the oil paint was making a bald spot on my board and that's when I knew I was doing something wrong. I did a test to see if I should add more paint but that wasn't the problem and then I decided to add less water to the brush and that wasn't it either so I just had let the painting sit for a day. I was also having troubles with blending the brown with the gold sense it was turning the oil paint green.
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In the Third photo I have completed the rest of the head dress and part of my face. Now what I usually struggle with is my nose. At the beginning when I was sketching out my face I do have to say I was struggling also sense i've never never done a painting with my face off to the side with my lips parted a little bit. In the beginning of the process I had wanted to compare my culture with the culture that my inspiration uses but at the same time there was hardly any connection so I had turned that self-portraint into my experiment of testing colors.
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Compare and Contrast:
Similarities- The similarities between my inspiration and my self-portrait is that I have kept the same meaning of culture, the 16 year old girl dressed up like a Turkish person. I can't say that I do the same as a 17 year old but I wanted to put myself in her shoes to see what it would be like to see myself dressed up as a Turkish woman. Both paintings go from light to dark but mine is a little darker than my inspiration artwork.
Differences- The differences between my inspiration and my self-portrait is that I use more of a darker color with a very little amount of white as for Vermeer he uses a lot more white then I did. The meaning behind both paintings are different; the 16 year old dutches used to dress like a Turkish woman and I have not.
Reflection:
The overall process of completing the project was a challenge. I've had my ups and downs through the process of completing this self portrait. In the middle of doing my process I ended up with doing self-portraits but one of them was my experimentation to see the colors if I want it to be really dark or light and then the amount of water I put on my brush sense I was using a board it was a lot harder. I did like how my self-portrait turned out though.
Bibliography:
https://www.tchevalier.com/gwape/story/#:~:text=Girl%20With%20a%20Pearl%20Earring%20tells%20the%20story%20of%20Griet,also%20attracts%20the%20painter's%20attention.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Girl-with-a-Pearl-Earring-by-Vermeer |
ACT Responses:
1. Clearly explain and describe how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork.
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration? 3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration? 4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research? 5. What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research? |