Self Portrait. (Contextual Studies)

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Hello readers, I know that I have abandoned my blog for centuries but now I AM BACK IN BUSINESS ! Well second semester had started about 4 weeks ago and I am supposed to blog about my assignments and stuff and YES I delayed to blog because I have no MOOD. Sorry Mr.Charles ! But I must start blogging whether I have or don't have the mood to blog because this is part of the assessment. Okay. So the first assignment that we are given is about 'Self Portrait'. Well I've done a lil bit of research here and there from the internet and what I have understand from the word 'Self Portrait' is a way to express and portray yourself in front of others. The artist that i researched about is Jackson Pollock. Well, Pollock's artwork mesmerized me a lot because the dripping method painting is so unique and personalize. Pollock has his style of painting as he said this before : "My drawings doesn't come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor." which created such master piece by just using forces of gravity. I cant tell that doing such thing that Pollock did aint easy. And another thing that I like about Pollock's artwork is that a piece of dripping master piece can be sold for like thousands or millions? Damn envy oh ! If you dont know who is Jackson Pollock, fear not because I am here to the rescue ! Lolwtf. Here's a lil research about Pollock.

Jackson Pollock himself.

And here are a few artwork by himself.



And I've even found a few picture that inspired someone to create self portrait Pollock's way.







 And also, I found out this cool website where you can create your very own dripping art. Do visit JacksonPollock.org for fun stuff ! Here is my master piece. Well, sort of a master piece. Lolol.



Okay. I know both of it is quite similar but it's really fun to do this ! haaahah ! Give it a try people !

And now back to my self portrait. Well as you all know that I have mad love for Lady Gaga. And yes, I use Lady Gaga as my guidance for my self portrait assignment. Since Lady Gaga started off her music industry, I have noticed that every music video of her have a message and she portray herself differently in every video. I have a few pictures for you guys to see as an example.

These are pictures from the video "Born This Way" and "Marry the Night".



Well pictures from "Born This Way", Lady Gaga try to portray the Manifesto of Mother Monster which can be seen clearly.



And in the video "Marry The Night", she tried to portray herself as a professional dancer and a ballerina. Therefore, I have decided to portray myself as the picture shown below.



Well here's my self portrait.Okay. I know that if Nicholas see this, he'll definitely think of "Illuminati". And if you are curious about what is Illuminati, google it out. It's quite interesting. Back to topic. I portray myself this way is because YES, I love Lady Gaga and the triangles are inspired by her from the Born This Way video. I uses triangle because to me,triangle symbolize dominance and power. In the design industry, you gotta be at the top of the pyramid to get rich and dirty. LOL Just kidding. You gotta be at the top so that others will know about you and you will become famous. Who doesn't wanna be famous and rich? As for the arrow on my forehead, it symbolize that we should never get too carried away by the fame and money because you need to pay off hell lots of consequences. Therefore, we gotta be down to earth and be humble in every way. And the red eyes are just effects that I personally like. Hahahaahaha  wtf. Well that's all I can describe myself here. Oh yea, one more thing to add on. I portray myself in black and white because everyone has their own dark and bright side. I wanna tell those people who bit*ch about me will face my darkest side. So, BEWARE. Hahahaahahaha. That's all for this post. It's so freakin longggg !