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"Unfazed" 

1. “As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness.” Spectacle illustrates that reality is presented to us in an everyday manifestation. This also distracts people from reality. The spectacle takes form on screen which drags out attention away from the rest of the world. 

1. “The Spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” Images such as advertising, television, film, and digital photos. The spectacle is an instrument used to attract an audience’s attention or curiosity. The spectacle today was unlike the spectacle 100 years ago. Modern technology expresses the spectacle in today’s modern world. The spectacle has the power to bring people together and spread to millions of people through social media and telisivion.

Weekly Selfie

My selfie is inspired by one of Amy Sherald’s art pieces, and portrays myself staring into the camera in a confident pose, like that of the people Amy Sherald portrays in her paintings.

“The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself.”

A large portion of the world is made up of falsities that people choose to live by instead of the truth. Many people contribute this by lying to themselves or accepting lies like false pictures that are created to depict a fabricated image. 

“Separation is itself part of the unity of the world, of the global social praxis split up into reality and image. The social practice which the autonomous spectacle confronts is also the real totality which contains the spectacle.”

I believe this statement means that the world is divided between the truth and the image people have of the world. The images people create and view are false depictions of others’ lives and situations. However, there pictures combined form a truth, the truths of our culture and community we wish to display.

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Quotes: 

·      The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself.

-       Images are all around the world they are all around us for example the billboards everyone passes by all over. They advertise and show different information to the viewers that are often lies being told so they can drag the viewer’s attention.  

·      A stream of images detached from everything in this life fuses into a common essence that cannot be restored

-       The fragments of life have joined in an unbreakable stream, in which the unity of this life cannot be re-established. Pictures and images from all over someone’s life can come together and make one big achievement of everything this person has done. Pictures are “directly lived”. He uses the word ‘stream’ to portray the endless series of images that are detached from our lives.

 

Quotes:

·      “a type of self-portraiture. It’s about looking at people who happen to look like me.”

·      “Versions of myself in art history and in the world” 

 

I chose this picture of my sister and me, we were at a wedding and my mom was the one to capture this picture of us and you could see we were not paying attention to anything but what we were talking about at the time. The quote “a type of self-portraiture. It’s about looking at people who happen to look like me.” Stuck out to me because I and my sister are always being told we look alike, and that we can be twins when I and her are 7 years apart. This was a version of us in history because this was before covid 2019. Another quote that stuck out to me was “Versions of myself in art history and in the world” because it was different times and it was history for now because we don’t look like those pictures anymore. 

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Guillermo Argueta "Culture" 2022

 

Mirzoeff

(Q) Among the most notable ongoing transformations, in addition to climate change, are the sixth mass extinction of living things, and the ever-growin clearance of over one quarter of the worlds forest

(Q) We have already not only long absorbed the costs of this conflict but learned to find them beautiful

Main Point: 

Chapter six being labeled as "The Changing World," can be interpreted in different ways. The author begins by asking "How do we know when the climate has changed?" To then giving scientific explanation on how "the very concept of climate is an abstraction, a human rendering data over time that cannot be observed in and of itself." Overall, the author trying to explain how this "change" cannot be observed in that very moment. Instead, it has to be throughout a period a time and although the changes are for the worse, we need to appreciate what is left before it's taken away. 

(Q) “I made this portrait for her family,” says Sherald. “I mean, of course I made it for Vanity Fair, but the whole time I was thinking about her family.

(Q) “I wanted this image to stand as a piece of inspiration to keep fighting for justice for her. When I look at the dress, it kind of reminds me of Lady Justice

Amy Sherald Effect

(Q) She activates the double function of portraiture as the recognition of a worldly identity and, in the best instances, the surprise of an evident inner life

(Q) As is natural in a time of transition, Sherald, too, is still learning.

Kehinde Wiley

(Q) “I know how young black men are seen,” he said on a recent winter afternoon in his studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. “They’re boys, scared little boys oftentimes. I was one of them. I was completely afraid of the Los Angeles Police Department.” 

(Q) His mom enrolled him in a free art course at a state college. Suddenly, he knew how he wanted to spend his life; his career unfolded with remarkable velocity.

Black masculinity

(Q) Already embodies so many of the themes of representations, self--ownerships, and unlikely presence that troubles Wiley's work

(Q) Almost all of his mature work features black subjects against backdrops that are intricately patterned, or refer to classic art--historical settings

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I was inspired by Amy Sherald, most of Amy Sherald portraits are always with serious faces and with sophisticated looks.

" I wanted this image to stand as a piece of inspiration to keep fighting for justice for her. When I look at the dress, it kind of reminds me of Lady Justice"

SELF PORTRAIT PROJECT COLLAGE

 

                   

In class we have been talking about many artists who have been immigrants or have had parents send their child to the United States. In my Portrait I decided to show how my parents came from Cuba to give me a better life. I chose to do this because not a lot of people can say that it was successfully done. I wanted to show everything they accomplished as well as things I was able to accomplish because of them as well. Individual views, attitudes, and behaviors can be affected by the media. Thus, policy interventions utilizing mass media communication have been directed at social norms that contribute to and support gender violence.Without a doubt, social media may have a negative impact on a person's mental and self-perception. This results from us comparing our actual appearance to idealized photos posted on social media. This might then cause us to feel bad about how we look and how we think of ourselves. These themes are addressed in my work because I show with societal norms being against us and not being in the normal culture for us, my family still made it work as immigrants who did not even know the language. They fought through the adversity. That inspired me to fight through adversity in my own life. "I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."

This is a very powerful quote. I  chose this quote because it's telling us why she makes portraits to begin with, to remind her gifters that she is always there with them. Ana Mendieta was one of the artists that inspired me the most out of everyone because she was from Cuba and her parents wanted the best for her and she was sent here. My mom as an artist also inspired me. "I love you more than my own skin." This quote caught my eye because it shows another side of Frida that we haven't seen outside of her artwork, which is emotion. Safe to say I feel the same way about my parents as well.  America itself is advertised as a big dream land. But for immigrants like my parents they had to get it through the mud. They worked in Car Washes, Painter Studios, as custodians, before they could finally work as teachers in the USA. This was because they had to take a year's worth of credits that did not qualify in the US. So they had to work different jobs just to eat everyday and even pay for school."Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"  Frida believes she has her wings. I believe I do as well. My parents taught me everything I know as they are my only family. This project speaks to my identity because it shows my roots and where I came from and what motivates me everyday to better myself and work hard at anything I set my mind to.

Weekly Selfie: Amy Sherald, Kehindle Wiley

I took this portrait a while back. I decided to grab whatever was around me and take a picture with it. I used a friend's hat, Some old crocs, my friend's wristband, my teacher's fanny pack. I did this to represent that, we all have something of use to other people. We can all help each other with our goals but just lending that helping hand goes a long way. They lent me a helping hand by helping take this portrait. "It is desire to modernize and unify the spectacle, combined with all other efforts to simplify society. " This quote signals what I did which was combine the efforts of multiple people to make this photo a reality. I really liked doing this because it felt personal and made me want to do more things just like this. " How can we make poor work" This quote stuck out to me because people have to make their situation work and no matter what bills are due. My portrait shows that with a helping hand things will be easier and especially for the poor. Donating clothes just how they did for may portrait. 

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Home

Mirzoeff, Chapter 6: The Changing World

"We have to make climate change less abstract."

"Human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, has raised that number to 400 parts per million—still tiny, still invisible, but now causing increasingly powerful effects in the climate worldwide."

A paragraph explanation

The chapter provides detailed information about climate change, its causes, and possible solutions. The chapter linked human activities as the major causes of climate change. Activities such as fossil fuel burning were believed to have increased to 400 parts per million. Also, industrialization was among the notable ongoing transformations contributing to climate change. Events like hurricanes, droughts, floods, record snowfalls, and escalating temperatures result from climate change.

Amy Sherald on her Breonna Taylor portrait

"I wanted this image to stand as a piece of inspiration to keep fighting for justice for her. When I look at the dress, it kind of reminds me of Lady Justice."

"The color that I chose almost had a resplendence to it. The monochromatic color allows you to really focus on her face. The whole painting really becomes about her."

Amy Sherald Effect

"Like some other commenters, I was bemused, when I saw the work in reproduction, by what seemed an overwhelming of the wearer by the worn."

"Peculiar to Sherald is a consistent nuance, in her subjects' expressions, which can take time to fully register—it's so subtle."

Kehinde Wiley: Classic spin on contemporary subjects

"I know how young black men are seen, they're boys, scared little boys oftentimes. I was one of them. I was completely afraid of the Los Angeles Police Department."

"My work is not about paint, it's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint,"

Black masculinity

"As I wrote just after the unveiling, the portrait helped bring the many parallels between "portraitist and President" even more clearly into view."

"It was interesting for me, personally, to be able to meld the language of the decorative in painting with his life story." 

Short response

Kehinde Wiley's work is a reflection of naturalistic painting of Black people. Among his work was the portrait he did for former President Obama. He uses his work to pass on information about black people.

          This is similar to Amy Sherald, but this artist's works mostly depict African Americans in everyday settings. She brings realism into her work. For instance, she stated, "I wanted this image to stand as a piece of inspiration to keep fighting for justice for her. When I look at the dress, it reminds me of Lady Justice."

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Homeland


My Digital Selfie is Titled ”homeland” Because my selfie is about my own identity and culture. Puerto Rico Contributes to a large portion of my culture and identity. In my household growing up with my Great grandmother, who was catholic, first language was Spanish,and resided in Puerto Rico for most of her life she bestowed the tradition,beliefs, and heritage she learned as a child, all that came from the rich island. Frida Khalid often references her Mexican culture, her paintings often depict things like Frida holding a small Mexican flag or her wearing a traditional dress.

In my digital portrait the background depicts the Coquí frog and the flag of Puerto Rico. The Coquí frog is the national symbol of Puerto Rico “Coquís are native to El Yunque, the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest Service. Recently discovered to be the oldest frog in the Caribbean, these little guys have been around for 29 million years (Besanya Santiago).” The Coquí is also said to carry many of the similar traits as the islanders with their loud distinct voices. Natives found the noises the frog made as music. The symbol is also celebrated in song, poems, folklore, and sayings that my grandmother use to say to me like “Sana, sana, colita de rana. Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana” which is often to comfort a child or loved one when they are in pain. The saying translates to music Heal, heal, little tail of the frog. If you don't heal today, you'll heal tomorrow. Often as a kid my great grandmother would say this to comfort me as a child. There many things that contribute to our identity like our origin stories, simple traditions, and heritage that is passed down it is important to embrace them and learn where they stem from.

Amy Sherald-

“I mean, of course I made it for Vanity Fair, but the whole time I was thinking about her family.”

“painting someone posthumously, I wanted it to feel ethereal but grounded at the same time,”

Black masculinity:

“a type of self-portraiture. It’s about looking at people who happen to look like me.”

“Barack Obama is incredibly sensitive to representation, and to art history. And so he wanted to make sure that this image communicated who he is in the world

 

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"Home"                                                           "Self-Portrait on the Borderline" 

Frida Kahlo incorporated her everyday life into her artwork. She was so transparent with her artwork. She talked about both parts of her life for example she explained her American side and her Mexican side. I cropped a picture of me and my siblings and the background is the pyramids of Giza and an Egyptian flag. I was born and raised in Egypt. I was raised around 40 minutes away from the pyramids, but I never actually went. It reminds me of the last time I went to Egypt which was 8 years ago. The first time I went back was to the place on the side of the picture which is a vacation spot in Egypt. “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality" Frida mentions she never painted dreams she only painted her own reality and what she is living in now, part of me wishes that my reality was to still live over there or visit there often. I made the picture of me and my siblings small because I was viewing it as us being so far from where our actual home is. “Drawing on personal experiences, including her marriage, her miscarriages, and her numerous operations, Kahlo's works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain.” Frida Kahlo was always one to show her pain and what she went through even when she’s painting about her two worlds colliding together. In my life, I would not try to show the different things I would go through especially if it is a painful life event, when I left Egypt to come here although I was young was very different to adapt to because of the language the people, and my parents still having the Arab mindset. “I paint myself because I am often alone, and I am the subject I know best". This is my favorite quote from her because in every painting she had she was alone only time was when she had animals surrounding her but, in a sense, she was still alone. I decided to incorporate my siblings because they are my home they are people I feel great comfort around.  

Mirzoeff Chapter 6: The Changing World: 

 

-       “Even if all emissions were to stop tomorrow, the climate will keep changing for centuries”

-       “There is an inverse relationship between the countries responsible for carbon emissions and those that suffer the consequences”

Mirzoeff discusses climate change, and the effect humans are having on environmental change. He talks about how human activity has changed the levels of carbon in the atmosphere. Mirzoeff believes that human activity has gone too far and that even if we change how we are now with the environment the climate will keep changing all over the world because there has been too much damage done. He goes on to explain that the damage done to the environment doesn’t only damage the environment but also damages people's lives as well. He mentions different parts of the world, for example, Africa being one of the lowest emitters and America having caused drought and different problems because of how much emitters are used. He then starts talking about the impact on animals and how many animals have gone extinct. 

 

 

Amy Sherald

on her Breonna Taylor portrait: 

-       “I wanted this image to stand as a piece of inspiration to keep fighting for justice for her. When I look at the dress, it kind of reminds me of Lady Justice.”

-       “Taylor’s future and how her life was taken from her. “I made this portrait for her family,” says Sherald. “I mean, of course, I made it for Vanity Fair, but the whole time I was thinking about her family.”

Black masculinity:

-       “I go out knowing that there is a state of grace that you want in a painting but not quite knowing what it is.”

-       “a type of self-portraiture. It’s about looking at people who happen to look like me.”

 

Kehinde Wiley

Classic spin on contemporary subjects:

-       “He fetishizes the material process instead of an external story”

-       “For me the landscape is irrational. Nature is the woman nature is the black the brown the other”

Amy Sherald Effect: 

-       “Versions of myself in art history and in the world”

-       “He impresses as somebody's son somebody's brother who is embarking on adulthood with resilient confidence but a good deal yet to learn”

Hybrid

My digital selfie is titled “hybrid” because my selfie represents the combination of two main contributors to my identity: the United States and the Dominican Republic. Similarly to Frida Kahlo, who explored her Mexican culture and identity through her paintings, both of these countries have contributed tremendously to my identity. The United States has been my home throughout my entire life, and the Dominican Republic is the home of my mother, whose culture has been embedded in me since my birth. In my digital selfie, I included a picture I took on the plane during my most recent trip to the Dominican Republic as well as a picture of a boat I saw on one of the beaches during that trip. I also included a picture of the lake in Lincoln Park and a picture of my sister and my mom together that I took a few months ago. All of these together form most of my identity, and all of it continues to shape me into who I am today.

Amy Sherald on her Breonna Taylor portrait

Quote #1: “She calls this portrait a contribution to the “moment and to activism—producing this image keeps Breonna alive forever.”

Quote #2: “I wanted this image to stand as a piece of inspiration to keep fighting for justice for her. When I look at the dress, it kind of reminds me of Lady Justice.”

Amy Sherald Effect

Quote #1: Both thereby apostrophize America’s original sin and permanent crisis: the otherizing of the not white, regardless of gradations. 

Quote #2: The standardized hues put race both to the fore and to the side of what’s really going on—an address to Western pictorial precedence, freezing a debate in the present to thaw a conversation with the past and future. 

Kehinde Wiley 

Quote #1: He is known for vibrant, photo-based portraits of young black men (and occasionally women) who are the opposite of scared — they gaze out at us coolly, their images mashed up with rococo-style frills and empowering poses culled from art history. 

Quote #2: “I am interested in evolution within my thinking,” he said. “I am not interested in the evolution of my paint. If I made buttery, thick paintings, there would be critics of that. You just have to proceed.”

Black Masculinity

Quote #1: “I was looking at historical precedent. I was looking at preëxisting images of heads of state, kings, aristocrats, nothing was working. It was all too demonstrative. It was all too self-aggrandizing. And I recall, in between shots, there was a moment of repose where he was sitting essentially as he is here, and it felt authentic.”

Quote #2: “When you look at the background, you’ll see that there are flowers from Indonesia, flowers from Kenya, Hawaii, the state flower of Chicago. And it all kind of gives you a sense of space and place and his trajectory.”

 

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My home is something that You can take in many different ways. I did not take it literally as I wanted describe basketball as my home. I played for many years and inspired me to make it my life dream to coach one day. Basketball became my home because as an only child, I was usually alone. I did not have any family here only parents. Outside I had a basketball hoop and I would spend hours and hours playing until I couldn't anymore. The court became my home, Playing Basketball became my home and I am glad that it did. I have won a lot of tournaments and shooting competitions and it showed me that hard work does pay off. But most importantly appreciate what is in front of you because although I didn't have a lot of family I still made the best of it with my time. In Chapter 6, discusses how the world is evolving. How can we tell when the climate has changed?  The author asks in his opening paragraph. The goal of doing so is to engage readers' knowledge of climate change while simultaneously introducing them to a new topic. As a result, the chapter's fundamental idea—a comparison of the state of the world across time—can be simply understood by readers. According to Mirzoeff, " human activities such as hunting, selling their dead carcasses, and performing experiments on them all contributed to the extinction of some generic relatives. Their skeletons, casts, and models created using current research are all that are left. " Which is great point. Those people left their mark, wanted society to continue their work. " Landscape was a visual representation of both the nature and conquest of nature and the conquests of colonialism" I took my portrait in a way that was unexpected just how landscape could be. Where I described my landscape which is the Basketball Court.