Blogpost 3: The Artistic Side of Selfies

Style - Beauty - Perfection - Fashion. These things emerge in our society today. Everyone wants to be noticed, recognized their own style. To create something new in their eyes. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To release the artistic talent of a person through a pose on his own image. The artistic side of a person can be perceive on how he manage to create a look in expression of what he feels. Selfies bring the artistic side of those who are in it. How they pose, what emotions they portray and how they upload it is a form of art. It varies and it depends on the eye of the beholder and the audience of course. What I mean with artistic is about how selfies bring a message to people just by looking at it. Selfies are not uploaded to say "Ï am pretty, like this photo." but they are uploaded to share what you feel inside at the moment. . It is an art of expressing oneself and art of creating something beautiful and unique. The easy ability to point a phone at yourself, click and share the image – taking a “selfie,” as it is called – has produced a new obsession in self-portraiture. 

I read an article entitled Moments of Being by Virginia Woolfe from theglobeandmail.com. According to that article she said that in the art world, image is as powerful as words in the narrative of self, something many artists have explored. Words that convey the heart of an artist and also being released on the photo taken from his pleasure to deliver a sense of art. She even wrote that “The whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art … we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”

Maybe, somehow, the selfie expresses our unconscious respect for the beauty in simply being alive. A phenomenon of contemporary media culture, practiced by millions of people.  The selfie is used to express different things in its everyday applications.We may not want to admit it, but much of life is lived in the small circles of self-absorption, concerned with daily tales of what we did and why.  Images which clearly make a statement that the photo-bombing self is more important than anything else that could be going on around us.

From the article I read entitled Selfies are Art by Noah Berlatsky from theatlantic.com whom took the standard third-wave-feminism, girl-culture-is-good line.  He explains that like any art, it depends on what people do with it. As they use a common form in different ways; that's how art works. The effort to erase individual variation and turn selfies solely into a symptom, for good or ill, recalls the moral panic around other new or marginal art forms. 

He also argues that selfies are an example of young women promoting themselves and taking control of their own self-presentation as from his statement,  ''Think of each one as a tiny pulse of girl pride—a shout-out to the self." For selfie is an art and this art must be a shout out. Creating vast ideas in a wonderful world.

All of us have God given talent in arts. And selfie  become the other medium of conveying the emotions and talent of an artist. It is good that the artistic idea of human not just stop in painting and drawing. But it also enter the photographic work of art varying from different location and pose. It develops the capability of mind to conceive unique styles and make something better to best. For in the end, style, beauty, fashion and knowledge are all mixed up in a single shot.