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Artists ranging from Rembrandt to Frida Kahlo have made self-portraiture a central theme of their work. We trace the practices of 10 great masters of the self-portrait.
By offering an eclectic look at the work of well-known figures—spanning Rembrandt, Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Norman Rockwell, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh —the enduring popularity of the self-portrait phenomenon becomes strikingly clear.
Vincent van Gogh is instantly recognizable by his reddish hair and beard, his gaunt features, and intense gaze. Van Gogh painted some 36 self-portraits in the space of only ten years. Perhaps only Rembrandt produced more, and his career spanned decades.
Self-Portrait (1895) by Edvard Munch The Munch Museum, Oslo. Edvard Munch. Munch's striking piece shows his face honestly against the inky backdrop and weaves in a reference to mortality with...
Rembrandt was a dedicated self-portraitist all his life, and roughly forty self-portraits by him survive today. In this example, painted when Rembrandt was fifty-four, the artist was unsparing in depicting the signs of aging in his own face, building up the paint in high relief to convey his furrowed brow, the heavy pouches beneath his eyes ...
In this 1659 self-portrait, 53-year-old Rembrandt van Rijn’s deep-set eyes bore into the viewer’s. His pose is modelled on Raphael’s famous portrait of Balthasar Castiglione, which Rembrandt saw at an auction in 1639.
Royal Collection. 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 ...
Too often women have only existed in the canon of art history as models, rather than artists in their own right. So let's expand the frame of self-portraiture - the original selfie - with...
Self-Portrait (1966) was constructed in what would become one of Warhol’s signature styles—a grid of bright, repeated silkscreened portraits. An expert colorist, Warhol paired primary and secondary colors as well as different shades of the same color.
Anchored by beautifully etched likenesses that are bathed in the colors of a sunrise, this image references the historical Miraj paintings of the visionary night journey of Prophet Muhammad. As...