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A self-portrait of a colorless, but youthful, rounded oval face, in full-frontal view, emerges from a reddish-brown, textured, but indistinct background; the eyes of the face are open but the body belonging to the face is abstract, blurred by pencil strokes and the color of sepia ink; [1] the clothing worn by the subject is indistinguishable as it dissolves into the background with each pencil ...
Self-portraiture, or Autoportraiture is the field of art theory and history that studies the history, means of production, circulation, reception, forms, and meanings of self-portraits. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Emerging in Antiquity and becoming popular from the Renaissance as an artistic practice, as a specific field of study, self-portraiture is ...
This category is about Self-portraiture, or Autoportraiture: field of art theory and history that studies the history, means of production, circulation, reception, forms, and meanings of self-portraits
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp House in Provence , by Paul Cézanne Lolotte and Werther , at and by Eunice Pinney
It therefore appears that, depending on the era and the gender of the authors or curators of the exhibitions, the share of the female self-portrait in painting is evaluated in a very variable way; the recent increase is not the consequence of a renewed activity of the artists concerned, but that of a positive re-evaluation, from the 1970s, of ...
The last three etchings date to 1648, [5] c. 1651, [6] and 1658, [7] whereas he was still painting portraits in 1669, the year he died at the age of 63. [8] At one time about ninety paintings were counted as Rembrandt self-portraits, but it is now known that he had his students copy his own self-portraits as part of their training. [9]
The painting Self-Portrait with Charlotte Berend and Champagne Goblet can be classified in many ways in Lovis Corinth's oeuvre, whereby its function as a double portrait and at the same time as a self-portrait and portrait of Charlotte Berend, later Charlotte Berend-Corinth, stands in the foreground. Corinth created numerous self-portraits ...
After showing the painting to a friend, Seurat painted over the portrait with a table and flowers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Recounted by art critic Robert Rey , Seurat's reactionary behavior resulted from his close friend's awareness of a clever and amusing framework behind the self-portrait. [ 5 ]