1. I think artists make portraits because it's a very simple way to start creating art; you have a reference in front of you and everything else, from the emotion, the medium, and the intent is in your control. An example of a purpose for portraits, besides serving as a visual representation of a person or group, is capturing an indescribable emotion while attaching it with the image of humanity; something we are very familiar with.
2. I believe a community consists of a circle of people who can form a connection and sense of belonging within each other due to their similar experiences, identities, beliefs, and interests. 3. Communities I frequent are the LGBTQ+ community, artist communities, fandoms of my interests, and my classmates and friend groups. 4. Casteel's works are very simple, unexaggerated poses. I like that she captures her references, not in painfully extravagant situations, but in subtle, natural settings. It's realistic and normal. Paired with the "normalcy", her palettes are vibrant, and striking, occasionally she does not use the colour of actual skin but instead goes for deep blues, or violets. Her work usually follows the same formula, but they are all unique and pleasant to look through due to her variety of colours in each piece. 5. Casteel's community seems to center around a focus on family and familiar connections. It is implied that their neighbourhood is not really a wealthy one, and the schools Casteel and her twin brother attended in were not exactly the most safe for them due to them being targets of racial discrimination. Despite all that, though, her community, the people within her neighbourhood, are happy together, treat each other with a type of fun casualness that you would normally see within a family. 6. Casteel mentioned that she wanted her portraits to capture black men's bodies in a more natural point of view, and challenging stereotypes like the criminalization and sexualization of black men. The people in her paintings are sitting comfortably on chairs, on the pavement, on buses, just trying to get through their daily lives normally. 7. The way I perceive Casteel's works, between her clothed and nude models, is that the paintings with the clothed models are a snapshot to someone's subtle everyday life, while the paintings with the nude models are an intimate view of their vulnerability, their self, their inner beauty.
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