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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
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-Portrait with Seven Fingers; Self-Portrait with Skeleton; Self-portrait with the Colosseum; Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ; Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird; Self-Portrait with Two Pupils; Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink; Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed. The Smokers (painting) Study for a Self-Portrait ...
Las Meninas, painted in 1656, shows Diego Velázquez working at the easel to the left.. Self-portraiture has a long history. In Reynolds & Peter's analysis, the handprints that prehistoric humanity left in cave paintings can be considered precursors of the self-portrait, as they are a direct document of the author's presence in the creative act and his perception of the existence of a "self".
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Trish Morrissey (born 1967) is an Irish artist who combines performance, photography, and film on long-term projects involving self-portraiture. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She lives in London. Morrissey's work is held in the collection of the Science Museum Group .
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Sally Mann (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) [1] is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as self-portraits.