{"id":1765,"date":"2021-11-12T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2021-11-12T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T16:10:30","slug":"11-11-selfie-and-more-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/12\/11-11-selfie-and-more-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/11. Selfie and more portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this class, we first discussed selfies that are provided by our classmates. It is amazing to see how choices, such as pose, expression, background objects, color, etc, are chosen consciously or unconsciously when taking these selfies. Deconstructing the massage each selfie conveys is also interesting! When I took my selfie I didn&#8217;t realize that so much information, such as our intimacy, time and location information, etc, is presented from our pose and background settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we continued our class on portraits. We looked at Robert Campin&#8217;s <em>Portraits of a Man and a Woman,  <\/em>where the amorphous background, i.e. totally dark black, is used to emphasize the character in the center. It&#8217;s also interesting that the difference in creating portraints between Notherners and Italians is alanogous to Aristotle and Plato, respectively, in the Raffaello Sanzio&#8217;s <em>School of Athens<\/em>.  In the painting, Plato is pointing up to the sky, which implies that Italians prefer to create ideal portraits so they hide or exclude the imperfections in their works. On the other hand, Aristotle is pushing his hand down to ground, which refers to northerners&#8217; preference of keeping all details, including imperfections, in their portraits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this class, we first discussed selfies that are provided by our classmates. It is amazing to see how choices, such as pose, expression, background objects, color, etc, are chosen consciously or unconsciously when taking these selfies. Deconstructing the massage each selfie conveys is also interesting! When I took my selfie I didn&#8217;t realize that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}