Through Impressions: The Human Social Perception.

• Ashley Binet, Fine Arts, University of Delaware

• David Brinley, Department of Art and Design, University of Delaware

Impressions of people are subjected to change depending on the key things that affect the persona and their feelings, which is why understanding this is the answer to is their individuality will be affecting their perceptions. This technique consists of observing people and noticing behaviours. How the behaviours have changed depending on the social setting the people present themselves at, be it in a comfortable environment or a hostile one. I have gotten to know people and came to the conclusion that the persona depends socially on what society has established as the “normal.”

After getting closer to the individuals and seeing them in different scenarios, I came to depict an image illustrating the duality of their interactions. Taking an interest in the concept of production or reconstruction with personalities and mannerisms, the focus shifted towards depicting them expressing the emotions with their body language. Creating a form of subjectivity in our eyes as the canvas translates two scenarios happening at the same time, in order to represent the duality of the personas. Images separated by the mediums used to paint the figures, such as oil paint for a faint but more vibrant expectancy of the inner human, while acrylic paint a more chalked up expectancy of the social human.

These details have their reasoning, with acrylic paints being more dull with a chalky finish it would represent what we can see from interactions without actually knowing how the why and how the person thinks. Just as the oil paints are more vibrant because of the oil, taking this as the essence itself for the person, their inner thoughts and just the way they tick. Finally I found the way to represent the representation through paint while trying to accomplish a more dual depiction of consciousness in order to understand.