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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 ...
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 ...
A painting by Parmigianino in 1524 Self-portrait in a mirror, demonstrates the phenomenon. Mirrors permit surprising compositions like the Triple self-portrait by Johannes Gumpp (1646), or more recently that of Salvador Dalí shown from the back painting his wife, Gala (1972–73). This use of the mirror often results in right-handed painters ...
The Nightmare (1781), by Johann Heinrich Füssli, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Symbolism, understood as a means of expression of the "symbol", that is, of a type of content, whether written, sonorous or plastic, whose purpose is to transcend matter to signify a superior order of intangible elements, has always existed in art as a human manifestation, one of whose qualities has always ...
This figure is unlikely to change much in the future, as the self-portrait in painting has declined sharply during the 20th century, marked by new pictorial movements leading to what has been called the "disappearance of the figure", or "crisis of mimetic representation", and by the rise of photography and then digital art.
The first known self-portrait was made in 1839 -- and with the introduction of social media, the art of the selfie has changed drastically. The first self-portrait in 1893 may have marked the ...
Nothing is known of his personality or his thoughts on the meaning of his art. Bosch's date of birth has not been determined with certainty. It is estimated at c. 1450 on the basis of a hand-drawn portrait (which may be a self-portrait) made shortly before his death in 1516. The drawing shows the artist at an advanced age, probably in his late ...
Kirchner's 'Self-Portrait as a Soldier' epitomises Expressionism through depiction of the horrors of war and of Kirchner's internal psyche and individual symbolic reflection upon anxiety, disability and anguish. [32] Technical application of oil paint to create Self Portrait as a Soldier also relays Expressionist influence. Peter Springer ...