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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 ...
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 ...
c. 1630 (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) The Liverpool Self-Portrait is transitional between a study of expression, a tronie, and a conventional head-and-shoulders 'portrait of the artist'. Self-Portrait in Oriental Costume with Poodle (1631-1633) Last self-portrait produced in his hometown and only full-length self-portrait.
In the earliest surviving examples of medieval and Renaissance self-portraiture, historical or mythical scenes (from the Bible or classical literature) were depicted using a number of actual persons as models, often including the artist, giving the work a multiple function as portraiture, self-portraiture and history/myth painting. In these ...
Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress is described as: "Kahlo appears half length, wearing an elegant velvet dress, against a background of stylized waves. She presents herself as a comely young woman of the time, her hair neatly parted in the centre and combed into a chignon that highlights her oval face and symmetrical features.
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 of Smith (c.1680), Worcester Art Museum Unknown man, oil on canvas, from 17th century colonial America, attributed to Thomas Smith. Thomas Smith (c. 1650 –1691) was an artist, sailor and slave trader in colonial New England.
Self representation may refer to: Self-image; Self-portrait; Pro se legal representation in the United States; Litigant in person, self-representation in a court in the UK; Self-representation (politics), a movement to encourage people in minorities to represent their own interests; Self-representation (culture), the way we represent ourselves ...