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A 10 page paper which examines art as it relates to identity and self. The paper focuses on the artist Paul Pitsker and Rim Laabi. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of self in terms of many things, many conditions, within their own person. While all artists perhaps involve the identity or self in their artwork, which is something that makes
their particular art theirs, others produce work that is clearly focused on identity and/or self. The following paper examines this form of art and focuses primarily on two artists. The
artists are Paul Pitsker and Rim Laabi. Paul Pitsker While perhaps not an incredibly famous artist, Paul Pitsker has had many exhibits and his work has been shown
around the world. His work focuses, obviously and primarily, on the self and on identity. In understanding more of his perspective this section will focus primarily on his own statements
regarding his art and identity/self. He states that, "At the highest level," he "set out to create an art that incorporates conflicting elements, an art that has internal tensions,
an art that is at war with itself" (Pitsker, 2004). He works towards a sort of balance that makes images seem odd yet also quite familiar. His work involves faces
predominantly, faces that are twisted and perhaps frightening, grotesque, but also amusing and beautiful: "images that evoke an atmosphere of disquiet, a sense of the unexpected strangeness of the world,
the fragility of life, the closeness of death, and the constant and perhaps futile struggle to rise above the coarse material world" (Pitsker, 2004). These sorts of images can
easily be boiled down to identity and self for they are images that not only speak of the artists identity but of the viewer who is looking at them. There
is a sense of longing for something better, something different. His faces are different people and he notes that his visions are "tried out on the subjects of my paintings
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