Luckily I have proud parents who saved my ridiculous doodles through the years.
The Preschematic Stage: Age 5. My family...and some black mass of something?
The Schematic Stage: 6 years. Self Portrait.. almost have my letters down.
The Gang Stage, The Dawning Realism: 8 years old. My brother and I.
The Pseudo-naturalistic Stage: 12 years old. Self Portrait.
The Period of Decision: 15 years old. Self Portrait inspired by Chuck Close.
17 years old. Pop Art Self Portrait.
19 years old. Rendering of Courbet's "The Desperate Man"
19 years old. Rendering of Lisa Yuskavage's "Smiley"
The big idea I found in my work when looking at my personal art history is the idea of identity. I often depicted myself and my family as a child. Most of my artwork was inspired by people who inspired me. As a child my family was what inspired my art works and as I got older I became inspired by artists.
When looking through all of my old doodles I actually remember making some of the pieces I found. I remember taking pride in my pieces, but now looking back on them I have to laugh. I think the point in time when I realized I wanted to pursue a career in art was when I was fifteen. I spent a lot of my extra time in the art room really connecting with and being inspired by my art teacher. It was then that I knew I wanted to do for others what she had done for me.
I learned a lot about artistic development when working on this assignment and was actually surprised to see that my artistic development pretty much followed standards. I feel that now that I have an understanding of where a child falls in their artistic development I will be able to discuss their art more appropriately and thoroughly, which is exciting.
