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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 ...
The self-portrait supposes in theory the use of a mirror; glass mirrors became available in Europe in the 15th century. The first mirrors used were convex, introducing deformations that the artist sometimes preserved. A painting by Parmigianino in 1524 Self-portrait in a mirror, demonstrates the phenomenon.
Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered to be the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. [1] Imagism has been termed "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development.
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.
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 ...
There are many examples of women artists under deleterious marital influence in the history of art, and one of them is illustrated in painting by the self-portrait of Maria Cosway made in 1787. Trained in Italy , Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Hadfield made a first portrait on a traditional model.
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
Gauguin was still in search of an ever greater suppression of the model and imitation of nature, exploring new forms of representation based on primitivism and some influence of Japanese art and Paul Cézanne (Symbolist Self-Portrait with Halo, 1889, National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.; The Yellow Christ, 1889, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo).