![]() ![]() ![]() Covering topics such as the medieval mirror craze, confessional self-portraits of Renaissance masters, the mystique of the artist’s studio or the recurring self-portraits, this book is a truly comprehensive research. The book covers famous self-portraits that provide insights into artists’ personal, psychological and creative worlds. Mapping the self-portraiture culturally, this book explores the genre from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of “bearing witness” to the prolific self-image-making of today’s contemporary artists. Are you interested in collecting art? You can now buy this self-portrait by Chuck Close!Įditors’ Tip: The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History by James Hallįind out more about the history of self-portraiture through this comprehensive publication with fresh interpretations of famous examples and works, ideas and anecdotes. Let’s take a look at the most famous self-portraits. The contemporary self-portraiture has spread across all media and styles from Warhol’s Pop Art portraits and Francis Bacon expressionistic ones to photorealistic pieces by Chuck Close and self-portrait photography by Cindy Sherman that explores the female identity. Egon Schiele has created numerous controversial and shocking self-portraits in his recognizable expressionistic style, Edvard Munch has painted himself regularly to show the ill treatment he suffered in life, Frida Kahlo has created over 50 self-portraits to depict her personal torment and the German Impressionist painter Lovis Corinth painted himself once a year on his birthday. Vincent van Gogh was one of the greatest self-portraitists of the 19th century and his most notable work is a Self-Portrait With the Bandaged Ear created during his emotional and physical decline. Many 19th-century painters such as Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were also very much interested in the genre of self-portraiture and have depicted their own image either individually or in groups. ![]() The prolific Dutch genius Rembrandt van Rijn has executed over 40 self-portraits over the course of his artistic career and he was obsessed with aging image of himself. ![]() During the Renaissance, painters such as Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli, Titian or Michelangelo Buonarroti avoided formal self-portraits and inserted their own images into different setting in their paintings. Albrecht Durer was also a prolific self-portraitist and he has created more than twelve self-portraits in various techniques. Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man in a Turban is regarded as the earliest known panel self-portrait. Some have often been creating repetitive self-portraits as they aged to capture the ever-changing self. Using mirrors as technical means, many painters, sculptors and printmakers have been reproducing their own image in various different and innovative ways for a variety of motives. This long-established form of portraiture dates back to antiquity, but it was not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that painters began depicting themselves as the main subject more frequently. Famous self-portraits created by most prominent figures throughout the history of art are a testament of this genre’s versatility. From novice to master, nearly all artists have attempted some form of a self-portrait at some point in their careers. ![]()
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