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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 ...
Petra Cortright was born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California. [1] Cortright is the daughter of two artists; her father who died when she was four, [2] Steven Cortright, was a sculptor/printmaker and art professor at UC Santa Barbara, and her mother is a painter. [3]
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.
A 2017 exhibition of her self portraits depicting the effects of her struggle with anorexia, gained significant attention in Norway. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In interviews, and in a TED talk, she described her struggle between creativity and suffering from poor physical health.
With her photography, Bohnen used various shutter speeds to overlap blurred images to provoke strong emotional and intellectual reactions about motion and identity, [4] [6] as in Self-Portrait: Vertical Elliptical Motion, Large (1974; Asheville Art Museum) [1] and Vertical Motion Up Medium: Pivotal Motion Medium (1983; Brooklyn Museum).
In 2017, she collaborated on a "selfie" project with W Magazine that was based on the concept of the "plandid", or "the planned candid photograph". Sherman utilized a variety of photo-correction apps to create her Instagram portraits. [52] From 2019 she showed self-portraits executed as tapestries by a Belgian workshop. [53] [54]
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Max Beckmann was a prolific painter of self-portraits [26] as was Edvard Munch who made great numbers of self-portrait paintings (70), prints (20) and drawings or watercolours (over 100) throughout his life, many showing him being badly treated by life, and especially by women. [27]