A world of opposites

how bbc arerself in images ;this image reflected a rell foces societies valietiess
game take photos around you and pub pictures event
theme of constrats:
UGLY: BEAUTIFUL
WEAK:STRONG
DUMB:SMART/BRIGHT/CLEVER/INTELLIGENT
NASTY:NICE
ILL:HEALTHY
BAD:GOOD
QUIET:LOUD
etc.......
we often things in terms of opposites likes "ugly" versus "beautiful"
beauty is perhaps in the eyebeholder, but advertiers renforce our simplistics-binary vision of the world , two conditions our way of seing things ; we hands up thinking on steoriotipes .
Shouyld we not nuance our vision of thinks? are people just " ugly" or " beautiful" ? our way of seeing others can be destructive of others....... when looking at the portait or someone's self portait go beyond juging a person by their apparence ,who they are in more important than what they looks like .Ask yourself :what can i learn from a person's appearence ;how is his :her life ,his :her felings"written" on his/her face?

Some words of teenager's language

-lol=Laughing out loud.
-mdr=Mort de rire
-les keufs=les policiers
-kiffer=aimer
-relou=lourd
-chelou =louche

Lyrics of "Je suis comme je suis" Jacques Prevert

" je suis comme je suis " Jacques Prevert


I am what I am

I am what I am

I am made like that

When I want to laugh

Yes I laugh out loud

I love him who loves meIs it my fault

If this is not the sameI love every time

I am what I am

I am made like that

What do you want more

What do you want meI am made to please

And then there is no change

My heels are too high

My size too curved

My breasts too hard

And my eyes too identified

And then after

What difference does it make you

I am what I am

I like to which I please

What difference does it make you

What happened to meYes I loved someone

Yes somebody loved me

Because children who love

Just know how to love

Love love ...

Why question me

I'm here to please you

And then there is no change.

Raymond Briggs

1) What is his profession?
Raymond briggs is an english illustrator,graphic novelist. his work was humour for children but the story was sometimes dramatic.
2) How important is it to him?

3) What is his house like?
his house look like a gigantic comic trip because the walls of his houses are coverd with his draws.
4) How does his home reflect his personnality?
his house reflect his personnality. there are books colours...
5) How does he talk about himself, his parents, the caracters he has invented?
when he is talking about his friends
6)?

My self-portrait

This image shows that I love animals and it shows that I love sport with my tee-shirt. I love animals because in my opinion if you love your animal, he loves you as well as you do. According to me, animals are great for children. They give you self-confidance.When I am with my dogs, I am relaxed and happy.

The 4th Plinth of Trafalgar Square:

What is the Fourth Plinth?

The Fourth Plinth is in the north-west of Trafalgar Square, in central London. Built in 1841, it was originally intended for an equestrian statue but was empty for many years. It is now the location for specially commissioned artworks. In my opinion ,it's a very useful thing but to my mind it's a pity that it was empty for many years. If i was at their place, I would put a very precious statues to decorate the town and for tourists.

Artists write about painting portraits….

The distance from the chin to the nostrils makes up a third of the face. It is the same from the nostrils to the eyebrows, and again from the eyebrows to the hairline. From one ear to the other, the distance is the same as from the eyebrows to the chin. The width of the mouth is the same as that from the middle of the lips to the chin.
Leonardo da Vinci

To displace. Put the eyes where the legs are, the genitals where the face is. To contradict. To do an eye face on and one sideways. Nature does many things like me, but she hides them.
Pablo Picasso

The way the nose is rooted in the face, the way the ear is screwed into the skull, the way the lower jaw is hung, the intensity of the gaze…
Henri Matisse

By the way, I am not a prince, but someone who makes his living from his handicraft.
Peter Paul Rubens

I have finished the portrait of me that you wanted… You will not be disappointed; I have kept my promise, since I have chosen the best and most lifelike for you: you will see the difference for yourself.
Nicolas Poussin

In a head, the first thing for an artist to do is to make the eyes speak…then you move on to how the nose sticks out. The sloping nostril is a good means of expression: it indicates a peaceful character.
Dominique Ingres

I am getting really old, I am covered in wrinkles, and you would not even recognize me apart from my puggish nose and my sunken eyes… What is certain is that I look my age: forty-one…
Francisco Goya
The flesh only has its true colour in the open air, especially in the sunlight. The local complexion must be transparent; though if halftoned it gives the illusion, in principle, of the blood under the skin.
Eugène Delacroix

I have bought for the purpose a fairly good mirror in order to work using myself as a model, as I do not have a real model, because if I manage to paint the colouring of my own head, which is a bit of a challenge, I could then just as easily paint the faces of other good men and women.
Vincent van Gogh

biography vincent van gogh :

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born from 30 March 1853and died the 29 July 1890 was a Dutch painter. Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers and traveled between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught in England. During this time he began to sketch people from the local community, and in 1885 painted his first major work the potato eaters.. In March 1886, he moved to Paris and discovered the French impressionist.

describe: The medium that Vincent van Gogh painted his portait was the gouache and the oil.the size was 553*630, colors were orange, red,yellow,green,dark,white.It was a portrait who had very light and no very shade.The style of the portrait was expressionnnist and impressionnist.the subject treated was the mutilation of Vincent van Gogh who is made.The artist tried to sayabout himself what he is made.We learn that he was sad , dissapointed.In my opinion he waits his end as thought he was relinquished.Personnally,i thinks Vincent van Gogh have fifty when he painted his portrait because he have wrinkle.The portrait was intended for the people who despire him and not know him.My emotions when i lookingat the portrait are that i thinkshe was made and very sad. In my opinion we felt pity of him.

why i like this painter:

i like this painter because in my opinion he has a particular style.I thinks colors are harmonious and i have a feeling of acquaintance.

Question sur l'exposition

-What do you think of the portait of the grand parents ?
-Why did virginie have take black and white portraits ?
-Why did Marc Jourdan take portraits of old people ?
-Why did she takes instantaneous portraits ?
-Why did not all portraits have a date ?
-Why one some portraits do we see people from behind ?
-Why were some portraits blurred ?