SELF-PORTRAIT AS AN EXPRESSIONIST TOOL FOR REPRESENTATION

The history of portraiture dates to very old times in history. It is the branch of the plastic arts that represents individuals the best and approaches them considering meaning and form. The theme of portraits is humans. They act as the documents that emphasize their distinguishing qualities and hig...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ffcfca3092784849b36bb32b7662a5f72021-11-24T09:20:41ZSELF-PORTRAIT AS AN EXPRESSIONIST TOOL FOR REPRESENTATION2148-416310.9761/JASSS7436https://doaj.org/article/ffcfca3092784849b36bb32b7662a5f72019-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jasstudies.com/index.jsp?mod=tammetin&makaleadi=1636510093_16-Dr.Sehran%20Dilmac.pdf&key=28628https://doaj.org/toc/2148-4163The history of portraiture dates to very old times in history. It is the branch of the plastic arts that represents individuals the best and approaches them considering meaning and form. The theme of portraits is humans. They act as the documents that emphasize their distinguishing qualities and highlight their identities. Based on this description, the objective of this study is to analyze the evolution of the self-portrait within the history of art that has always been in consistency with the social and individual changes from modernism until today. Even though self-portraits have a very long past, the study particularly focused on the artists whose works reflect the formation of individual identity, and have a critical attitude towards the liberation of the individual going beyond social enforcement from modernism until today, with self-portrait as the main heading. The study also described the chronological history of the self-portrait within art history and attempted to make a synthesis by questioning the role of the self-portrait as representative of identity in modern art based on the artists and works of that period. The self-portrait may be accepted as a product of the answers that are sought by artists regarding their own existentialist questioning. The self-portrait, which studies the very artist as the subject, is one of the starting points of existentialism since it focuses on the fact of ego. Today, the rapid changes in social, economic, cultural, and political environments are having a negative impact on individuals’ identity formation process. This situation also affected the artists who worked on self-portraits, and made them question social problems based on their own body images. For this reason, the problem for which the study will do plastic analyses on self-portraits is modern individual’s existence problem that originated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has grown stronger until the present day.Sehran DİLMAÇGüler AKALANFırat Universityarticleexpressionism, painting, selfportrait, art, existenceSocial SciencesHSocial sciences (General)H1-99DEENFRTRJournal of Academic Social Science Studies , Vol 11, Iss 67, Pp 209-223 (2019)
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topic expressionism, painting, self
portrait, art, existence
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Sehran DİLMAÇ
Güler AKALAN
SELF-PORTRAIT AS AN EXPRESSIONIST TOOL FOR REPRESENTATION
description The history of portraiture dates to very old times in history. It is the branch of the plastic arts that represents individuals the best and approaches them considering meaning and form. The theme of portraits is humans. They act as the documents that emphasize their distinguishing qualities and highlight their identities. Based on this description, the objective of this study is to analyze the evolution of the self-portrait within the history of art that has always been in consistency with the social and individual changes from modernism until today. Even though self-portraits have a very long past, the study particularly focused on the artists whose works reflect the formation of individual identity, and have a critical attitude towards the liberation of the individual going beyond social enforcement from modernism until today, with self-portrait as the main heading. The study also described the chronological history of the self-portrait within art history and attempted to make a synthesis by questioning the role of the self-portrait as representative of identity in modern art based on the artists and works of that period. The self-portrait may be accepted as a product of the answers that are sought by artists regarding their own existentialist questioning. The self-portrait, which studies the very artist as the subject, is one of the starting points of existentialism since it focuses on the fact of ego. Today, the rapid changes in social, economic, cultural, and political environments are having a negative impact on individuals’ identity formation process. This situation also affected the artists who worked on self-portraits, and made them question social problems based on their own body images. For this reason, the problem for which the study will do plastic analyses on self-portraits is modern individual’s existence problem that originated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has grown stronger until the present day.
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