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Female self-portrait in painting is the representation of a person of the female gender painted by herself. While using pictorial techniques and responding to the motivations of the self-portrait in general, the female self-portrait differentiates itself from the male by aspects concerning the physiognomy , the anatomy and the physiology of the ...
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón [a] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
She was the daughter of Jan Sanders van Hemessen (c. 1500-after 1563), a prominent Mannerist painter in Antwerp who had studied in Italy. [7] Her father is believed to have been her teacher [8] [9] and she likely collaborated with him on many of his paintings [10] She became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp and was the teacher of three students.
Self-Portrait is a small painting executed in oil on oak in 1548 by the Flemish Renaissance artist Catharina van Hemessen when she was 20 years old. The painting earned her a considerable reputation and is significant not only for being an early modern female portrait but also for representing an artist in the act of painting. [1]
Self-portrait: Hyacinthe Rigaud: 1716 1857 Self-portrait: Giovanna Fratellini: 1720 2064 Self-portrait: Violante Beatrice Siries: 1750s Self-portrait: Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria: 1750s 2065 Self-Portrait in the Traditional Costume of the Bregenz Forest, Seated at her Easel: Angelica Kauffman: 1757 4444 Self-portrait: Anton Raphael Mengs ...
Caterina van Hemessen's 1548 self-portrait, perhaps the oldest self-portrait of a female oil-painter, though much earlier examples of manuscript painters exist. Sofonisba Anguissola ( c. 1532 –1625) of Cremona served as court painter to the Queen of Spain , and painted several self-portraits and many images of her family.
Artemisia was aware of "her position as a female artist and the current representations of women's relationship to art". [60] This is evident in her allegorical self portrait, Self Portrait as "La Pittura", which shows Artemisia as a muse, "symbolic embodiment of the art" and as a professional artist. [60]
From this body of work she produced a series of paintings about which she felt great excitement and satisfaction. During this period of painting, she produced her initial nude self-portraits (including Self-Portrait at 6th Wedding Anniversary), works that were unprecedented for female artists, as well as portraits of friends. During her final ...