Personal Identity

Personal Identity

Rules of Facial Proportion • Shape of the head: The idealized head is egg-shaped or broader at the top and narrower at the bottom. • Eyes: The eyes are placed just above the center of the head. The space between the eyes and on each side is equal to the width of one eye. • Nose: The top of the nose is even with the top of the eyes, while the bottom of the nose is about halfway between the bottom of the chin and the top of the eyes. The bottom of the nose is the same width as the space between the eyes. • Ears: The ears are drawn between the top of the eyes and the bottom of the nose. • Mouth: The mouth is almost as wide as the distance between the pupils of the eyes.

Facial proportion

Facial Recognition Technology http://www.youtube.com/v/ZSar0i3OFXg

Facial Recognition Technology http://www.youtube.com/v/NzCV_L87J2I

Facial Topography http://www.youtube.com/v/gCu98wRRn8Q&feature=PlayList&p=AB37379E1ED99E27&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=38

Artist Background • George Segal was born in 1924 in New York City. He grew up and lived in New Jersey, where he and his wife, Helen, owned a farm. In 1961, Segal began working with live models -- including himself -- to create the plaster-cast figurative sculptures for which he became best known. Segal's work has universal significance. With its underlying narrative of the lives of ordinary people, it is easy to interpret, and it is moving because of the human dramas it represents. Despite the realistic treatment, his work, in its subtlety and strength of expression, has earned a place in the mainstream of Conceptual Art in the 20th century.

George Segal’s plaster casts Wendy with chin on hand 1982 Bus Stop 1975

George Segal’s plaster casts Woman Resting 1970

Artist Nick Reynold’s Face Cast http://www.youtube.com/v/4M3V9hQDHP0

Plaster cast process http://www.youtube.com/v/z4jS1-4jfAI

Mask definition • mask- A face covering. Usually it is something worn on the face, with openings for the eyes, to conceal one's identity, either for partying (as at a masquerade ball), to frighten or amuse (as at Halloween), for ritual, or for performance (as by dancers, or by actors in Greek, Roman, and Japanese theater.) It may be worn principally to protect the face (as a gas mask, or a hockey mask, or a physician's mask, etc.) It may also be any two- or three-dimensionalrepresentation of a face — as in the covering of an Egyptian mummy's face depicting the face of the deceased. A mask can be a mold of a person's face — a death mask if made after death, a life mask if made before it. • Or, it may refer to an opaqueedge or area placed between an image and a photosensitive surface to prevent its exposure to certain portions of the image. An example of this is a frisket. • And, it may be used as a verb: to cover in order to conceal, protect, or disguise.

The Meaning of Color

Illustration of words

How are you unique? • What words best describe who you are? • What colors best describe those words? • What color best describes you?

Vocabulary • emphasis - Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork; something singled out, stressed, or drawn attention to by means of contrast, anomaly, or counterpoint for aesthetic impact. A way of combining elements to stress the differences between those elements and to create one or more centers of interest in a work. Often, emphasized elements are used to direct and focus attention on the most important parts of a composition — its focal point. Emphasis is one of the principles of design. A design lacking emphasis may result in monotony. • cast - To form (molten metal, or liquid plaster or plastic, for example) into a three-dimensionalshape by pouring into a mold; or something formed by this means. Also, an impressionformed in a mold or matrix. • contrast - A large difference between two things; for example, hot and cold, green and red, light and shadow. Closely related to emphasis, a principle of design, this term refers to a way to stress the differences between them. Thus, a painting might have brightcolor which contrast with dark colors, or angularshapes which contrast with curvaceous shapes. Used in this way, contrast can excite, emphasize and directattention to points of interest.

Vocabulary Onomatopoeia - is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar". Plaster bandages - strips of cheese-cloth packed with plaster, traditionally used in the making of casts. Pariscraft and Plastercraft are less-expensive brands of plaster bandages for such sculptural uses as making masks and molds of body-parts. proportion - A principle of design, proportion refers to the comparative, proper, or harmonious relationship of one part to another or to the whole with respect to size, quantity, or degree; a ratio. topography - A description, model, or drawing of mountains, valleys, hills, rivers, roads, bridges, and other things found on the surface of a place. • High relief - In reliefsculpture, a form that extends at least halfway out of the background. • Illustration - A design or picture in a book, magazine or other print or electronic medium that explains the text or shows what happens in a story. • life mask - A cast of the face of a living person. Usually such casts have been made from a mold produced by placing gesso or plaster on the face, with a passage provided for breathing through the mold. Such a mold is likely to be of one piece, since the face is generally sufficiently flexible to enable removal of the hardened mold, as long as a release agent has been applied. A death mask is very similar.

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Personal Identity