Justin Wright

Emotional Interactions

My thesis visualizes emotional responses from three of my male friends. These portraits are interacting images, that were comprised by conversations and active engagements from my male friends. In addition, these pieces capture a specific emotional moment from our interactions, also using color and light to enliven the interacting portraits. I want the audience to understand the distinct attitudes employed by each subject. My reason on choosing this subject matter for my thesis was to emphasize how expressive colors can portray human emotions.

Each individual portrait engages the subject’s emotion through specific color choice and textural applications. My decision on color choice was to emphasize and capture the true essence with the emotional feelings of my male friend’s emotion. My thesis portraits were comprised from the influence of Alex Garant’s work. I incorporate colors that emphasize the individual subject and their emotional outlook. The inclusion of colored light bulbs compliment each subject’s emotional “moment.”

The three pieces signify moments of sociality, introversion, and provocation, which compliments my choice of emotions within each individual subject, being happiness, calmness, and anger. While also, incorporating colored backgrounds to correspond with the particular emotions.

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Thesis committee members

Professor Alex Bostic, Chair
Professor Jenna Altomonte
Professor Gregory Martin

Sociality

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of happiness. Wearing a warm green colored shirt, with dark black shorts. Incorporating multiple areas of warm tone greens onto the skin of the face, neck, hands, and arms. Also, having a shade silhouette behind the male figure. Warm and cool tones of greens on the background to compliment both the figure and the emotion of happiness. Detailed and textural areas within the shirt, shorts, arms, face, and background. — An oil painting of one of my male friend emphasizing an emotional feeling of sociality, that compliments the choice of emotion within the piece, which is an emotion of happiness. Front view of oil painting of the emotional feeling titled “Sociality.” Oil paint on panel, 30x40in.

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of happiness. Detailed and textural image of specific brush stroke on the male figure’s face and facial features, which helps compliments the emotional feeling of “sociality”

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of happiness. Detailed and textural image of specific brush stroke and paint layering on the male figure’s shirt.

Detailed and textural image of specific and layered brush stroke on the male figure’s pants. Multiple cool toned and dark toned areas of blacks and greens on the figure’s pants.

Detailed and textural image of specific and layered brush stroke on the male figure’s right arm and hand. Multiple cool toned and dark toned areas of browns and greens on both the right arm and hand.

Detailed and textural image of specific and layered brush stroke on the male figure’s left arm and hand. Multiple cool toned and dark toned areas of browns and greens on both the left arm and hand.

Provocation

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of anger. Wearing a warm red colored shirt, with warm white colored pants. Incorporating multiple areas of warm tone reds onto the skin of the face, neck, hands, and arms. Also, having a shade silhouette behind the male figure. Warm and cool tones of reds on the background to compliment both the figure and the emotion of anger. Detailed and textural areas within the shirt, shorts, arms, face, and background. — An oil painting of one of my male friend emphasizing an emotional feeling of provocation, that compliments the choice of emotion within the piece, which is an emotion of anger. Front view of oil painting of the emotional feeling titled “Provocation.” Oil paint on panel, 30x40in.

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of anger. Detailed and textural image of specific brush stroke and paint layering of light reds, dark reds, grays, browns, and blacks on the male figure’s face and facial features, which helps compliments the emotional feeling of “provocation”

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of happiness. Detailed and textural image of specific brush stroke and paint layering of reds, yellows, and whites on the male figure’s shirt.

Detailed and textural image of specific and layered brush stroke on the male figure’s pants. Multiple cool toned and dark toned areas of whites, pinks and reds on the figure’s pants.

Introversion

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of calmness. Wearing a warm blue colored shirt, with dark black colored pants. Incorporating multiple areas of warm tone blues onto the skin of the face, neck, hands, and arms. Also, having a shade silhouette behind the male figure. Warm and cool tones of blues on the background to compliment both the figure and the emotion of calmness. Detailed and textural areas within the shirt, shorts, arms, face, and background. — An oil painting of one of my male friend emphasizing an emotional feeling of introversion, that compliments the choice of emotion within the piece, which is an emotion of calmness. Front view of oil painting of the emotional feeling titled “Introversion.” Oil paint on panel, 30x40in.

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of calmness. Detailed and textural image of specific brush stroke on the male figure’s face and facial features, which helps compliments the emotional feeling of “calmness”

African American male friend emphasizing an emotion of calmness. Detailed and textural image of specific brush stroke and paint layering of blues and blacks on the male figure’s shirt.

Detailed and textural image of specific and layered brush stroke on the male figure’s pants. Multiple cool toned and dark toned areas of blues and blacks on the figure’s pants

Detailed and textural image of specific and layered brush stroke on the male figure’s right arm and hand. Multiple cool toned and dark toned areas of browns and blues on both the right arm and hand.

Detailed and textural image of specific and layered brush stroke on the male figure’s left arm and hand. Multiple cool toned and dark toned areas of browns and blues on both the left arm and hand.

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Justin Wright

Emotional Interactions