While self identity is about how you see yourself, based on your own personal characteristics, social identity is how others see you or how you want others to see you in your society. Where do you fit in? How do you fit in? Social identity is created by your associations with other people such as a group of friends or a family circle, a school population, a country.
Basically, social identity is how the artist wishes to show the subject to the viewer, tells us how the subject is seen to others around him/her and/or how he/she wants to be seen.
General Questions to ask when looking at the following works:
1. Is there more than one person in the painting? Is there is, what is the relationship?
2. Is the subject at ease or uncomfortable in the setting?
3. What do the objects in the background tell you about him/her?
4. What are the emotions or actions of the subject? Do they appear as if they are posing or behaving naturally? What does this tell us about the artwork and/or the artist?
Agus Suwage (Indonesia 1959 –present)
Cinderamata Ala Indonesia (Souvenir from Indonesia)
Oil on Canvas and found paper objects 70x60 cm (each, series of 6) 1996
Collection of the Singapore Art Museum
Neil Manalo (Philippines 1965 – present)
The Accuser Suddenly Intervened
Oil on canvas 183 x 302 cm 1992
Collection of the Singapore Art Museum
Chatchai Puipia (Thailand 1964 – present)
You inside, are you still ok?
Oil on Canvas 240 x 280 cm 1977
Collection of the Singapore Art Museum
Chau Mia Tee (China 1932 – present)
Samsui Women
Oil on Canvas 89 x 89 cm 1977
Collection of the Singapore Art Museum
Lai Foong Moi (Malaysia 1931 - Singapore 1995)
Labourer (Lunch Break)
Oil on Canvas 103.7 x 66.5 cm 1965
Collection of the Singapore Art Museum
Georgette Chen (China 1906 – Singapore 1993)
Portrait of Eugene Chen
Oil on canvas 92 x 91.5 cm 1940
Collection of the Singapore Art Museum
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