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My opinion of David Delafield’s Work College Reading And Writing As I look around at the exhibition of David Delafield one section of it caught my eye. I walked back to the right corner of the hall. Here was a collection of self portraits that Delafield constructed over his artistic career. I took three self-portraits that stood out to me of David Delafield, that he produced roughly twenty years apart from each other. These pieces, tucked away in one of the corners of the exhibition hall, were displayed in a chronological order. The first piece I chose to analyze gives us a look at one of his earlier self portraits. Delafield finished the portrait around 1945. The 18”X12” encaustic self-portrait has a background of reddish-pink color. It depicts a young Delafield with a very stern look on his face. Delafield represented himself possibly in his Army greens. The picture has a very angry and somewhat scary feeling about it. I felt that his eyes in this portrait were following me around the hall. It reminded me much of a mug shot of a serial killer. His face shown long and thin e