tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054595168427809825.post5470921386780240500..comments2023-10-28T11:54:35.877+01:00Comments on Jade Tamara: What makes us who we are?JadeTamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10109691810909844325noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054595168427809825.post-26895276917102600052009-10-06T16:44:17.447+01:002009-10-06T16:44:17.447+01:00Interim Review Unit 1: Anatomy 06/10/09
Firstly, ...Interim Review Unit 1: Anatomy 06/10/09<br /><br />Firstly, your essay question - perfection? I guess you mean 'beauty' - as you rightly point out, it's a cultural fiction, but it's also a big target, so your first job will be to put limits on the discussion and choose your case-studies carefully; of course, Dorian Gray is a story about the hypocrisy of beauty (that it really is only skin deep), but it was written at a time when the idea that a person's personality could be derived from their face was gathering scientific credibility; a good starting point for your essay would be to look at the idea of physiognomy <br /><br />http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physiognomy<br /><br />and also scientific racism<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism<br /><br />All of these belief systems have, at their base, that there is an agreed version of beauty to which other versions can be compared unfavourably; so the Greek profile compared to the African profile etc. One is canonised as the 'rule of beauty', which means everything different from that cannot be 'as beautiful' and therefore inferior; it's an idea that is ongoing; look at red heads as compared to blondes etc...<br /><br />Do put the idea of beauty 'on trial' you will need to demonstrate a basic understanding of these ideas, and select portraits, illustrations, drawings etc, that allow you to enrich your argument.<br /><br />Regarding your portraits, I'd like you to move into colour/mixed-media, as you do seem very comfortable (perhaps too much) working in a linear, graphic style; perhaps you might consider combining drawn elements with photographs and manipulated photographs; I know you're learning photoshop pretty much from scratch, but I should get stuck in and start applying it in practical terms; as yet, you don't appear to have settled on a single, out-right idea, but I wonder, in light of what you've talked about re. bullying, if you might use metamorphosis or transformation as an image for the 'then/now' idea you were expressing. I'd certainly like to see you incorporate a more bold, stylised aesthetic, and more abstraction too; remember, your own face need not be the key to creating a compelling picture of your identity/indentities...tutorphilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054595168427809825.post-84226266322434003692009-10-06T16:31:51.583+01:002009-10-06T16:31:51.583+01:00Hi Jade,
This isn't your review; that will fo...Hi Jade,<br /><br />This isn't your review; that will follow as second post; I just wanted to say that I admire you for being able to talk about the bullying thing; as a teenager, I was classically 'square', in so much as I wore glasses, had rubbish hair (no Nike trainers obviously!) and was a bit too intelligent for some; I was bullied too; at the time, it was pretty rubbish, but it's all dim and distant now; suffice to say, confidence is something we can give ourselves! I want you to be confident; I know you don't like the whole seminar experience and probably dread being asked an outright question or having attention drawn to you, but hey, nothing bad is going to happen to you here - just good stuff! Anyway, that's the soppy bit over with, now onto the tutor routine... :-)tutorphilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.com