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Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). This painting is shows many feelings and emotions
which is where I wanted to go with my art work Van Gogh did a great job with detail and feeling behind this art. Its nice and simple, yet has so many meanings behind it. This painting can make a great connection to my story, because my emotions are all over the place up and down.
portrait of doctor gachet, Vincent van Gogh, Oil on canvas, Private collection, 67 cm × 56 cm (23.4 in × 22.0 in) http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0753.htm
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). This painting is called the "Crying girl"
he made in a comic look and use thick white lines to stand out for peoples eyes. Then used dots on her face so small you wouldn't be able to notice. He only gave color to the hair and lips so they would stand out. He also made the tear come out of the side of her eye and have her looking a certain way to make viewers wonder what she is looking at. He was known for doing other pop art. Roy wanted this piece to show emotions and feeling.
"Crying girl", Roy Lichtenstein, 1′ 4″ x 2′ 0″
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/22/the-crying-honduran-girl-on-the-cover-of-time-was-not-separated-from-her-mother-father-says/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9df2937ec5c9
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/22/the-crying-honduran-girl-on-the-cover-of-time-was-not-separated-from-her-mother-father-says/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9df2937ec5c9
Story: Expedition text
Hope:
One December 2, is the moment my life would have changed forever. Under my right breast I found a lump, imagine being a 16 year old girl finding a lump. I then lay in the bed crying thinking about all the possible outcomes. The doctors walk in just to tell me that they can’t run any test and I have to wait for my primary doctor.
Monday comes and my mom calls and makes me an appointment for Tuesday. The waiting makes everything worse not knowing what’s going on. Tuesday came my anxiety went through the roof. I talked to my doctor and told her everything and what was going on. The only information she could tell me was I need to see a breast Surgeon which makes me feel it’s so much worse. That day I go see her we do a ultrasound to see how big it is, when I see it I feel the tears coming down like a waterfall. She then tells us to go across the hall to talk about the pictures the new doctor says, “I am 99.999% sure this is not breast cancer”. She can’t tell me 100% unless I do a biopsy so I did we schedule it for next week Wednesday. So after all the appointments today we were back at stage one. The biopsy came back cancer free the only thing I have left is the lump which I was ready for it to be gone. 6 Months pass I tell my doctor I want it gone and she says “okay let’s do it”. We schedule it for three days after. Now I have had surgery as a little kid not one that I could remember. So I freaked out the day of surgery crying and just nervous surgery is a scary thing. Surgery happens and I wake up and everything is okay it went well. My doctor warns me about my scar and how much pain I could be in to use an ice pack and just lay down. So I do as told keep it easy and the days past and I am feeling better as they go by. The day comes where I can unwrap it and look at it this is the day I actually felt a panic attack. I look at my scar between seeing cut skin a dark purple marker I cried felt like I was going to throw up, I felt the room spinning 100 mph, and my head was pounding. My mom told me “sit down breath its new its going to look ugly for a while they cut you”. For a while I couldn’t accept my scar I hated it I thought it was ugly and nasty. My mother then told me “Nelyah anyone who sees it is going to be someone who loves you and will think its a battle wound. It’s not ugly it’s beautiful because its apart of who you are now. That was the day I learned scars are beautiful and make you different from everyone else. |
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On the left I wanted people looked at my art I wanted them to feel my emotions during this time. I wanted you to be able to look at the art without reading my story and know it was mixed emotions. So that's why I sketched this on the left. I choose to use two different girls and a split in the middle to show the emotions are divided.
On the right I wanted to put a elephant in the back, because the show strength and during the process I had to have strength. Also in this photo I wanted I knew i wanted to get emotions happy, sad so I knew I had to incorporated somehow. I also wrote words in the background such as "strength", "trust", "elephant", and "hope".
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Planning: |
Connect my INSPIRATION:
In my art I really wanted to connect to the "Crying girl" and "Doctor Gachet" I wanted the feelings behind it but I wanted there to have little symbols that I knew what they meant, and others to question.
The two pictures of me I wanted to look like i had mixed emotions. The one on the left doesn't really show emotions besides serious. On the other hand the other photo is more confusion, thinking about things, and serious. I decided to go with this photo to connect back to Vincent Van Gogh with the mixed emotions. Both of the arts had a back story and something going on and the artist showed it with out full stating "i am sad" |
Process:
PORTRAIT OF DOCTOR GACHET, VINCENT VAN GOGH, OIL ON CANVAS, PRIVATE COLLECTION, 67 CM × 56 CM (23.4 IN × 22.0 IN) HTTP://WWW.VGGALLERY.COM/PAINTING/P_0753.HTM
"Crying girl", Roy Lichtenstein, 1′ 4″ x 2′ 0″
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/22/the-crying-honduran-girl-on-the-cover-of-time-was-not-separated-from-her-mother-father-says/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9df2937ec5c9
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The picture on the left are me writing the words that I wanted in my art how I wanted them. The one on the left are just elephants that I drew to have in the background for
a little meaning. This is connecting back to "Crying girl" as her dots on her face are over looked. Just like the words and feeling would be overlooked because they aren't the center of attention. reflection: In my art I wanted to express emotion and feeling and really connect to "Crying girl" and "Doctor GACHET". There were many challenges especially with my hair. Every curl I had to get really close and not try to cut out the detail. I also decided I wanted to change my layout I placed the word "hope" over my eyes to indicate that's all I need to focus on. I placed the elephants and words in the background that I needed in the moment. I took different emotions and encouraging words that I had in mind while going thorough such a hard time. It was hard for me to work on photo shop I am not that good at it and need to try harder.
SIMILARITIES:
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Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect on your artwork?
Both of the art works helped me with how I focused on my face and showing emotions. I knew I didn't want them to be cleared showed, but I wanted you to know I was feeling something.
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
When I was doing my research I found that the crying girl was to express feelings and to show that she looks strong but is still hurt her. Her hair being golden and standing out and the red lipstick. She is so beautiful what is she crying about.?
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture,etc. while you researched your inspiration?
I have learned that everyone looks at things differently and can interpret something different. Depending on you feeling and mood something could standout more than something else.
What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central idea and theme was you can express emotions in different ways like in both of my inspirations with "crying girl" she expressed and showed her emotion. Where "Doctor Gachet" didn't show, but you could yell by the position of his body.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
I inferred that there was more than just sad and hurt in the inspirations. I believe there was hurt, sad, overthinking , and maybe a little happiness.
Both of the art works helped me with how I focused on my face and showing emotions. I knew I didn't want them to be cleared showed, but I wanted you to know I was feeling something.
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
When I was doing my research I found that the crying girl was to express feelings and to show that she looks strong but is still hurt her. Her hair being golden and standing out and the red lipstick. She is so beautiful what is she crying about.?
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture,etc. while you researched your inspiration?
I have learned that everyone looks at things differently and can interpret something different. Depending on you feeling and mood something could standout more than something else.
What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central idea and theme was you can express emotions in different ways like in both of my inspirations with "crying girl" she expressed and showed her emotion. Where "Doctor Gachet" didn't show, but you could yell by the position of his body.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
I inferred that there was more than just sad and hurt in the inspirations. I believe there was hurt, sad, overthinking , and maybe a little happiness.