By Nana Japaridze
In 1660, Rembrandt painted himself with unflinching honesty. In this self-portrait, he shows every furrow and fold of age. He had suffered loss and bankruptcy by then, and his weary gaze is almost pained with introspection. Rembrandt painted over 40 self-portraits in his life – essentially keeping an artist’s diary on canvas. Centuries later, Vincent van Gogh similarly turned the camera on himself. His 1889 Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear immortalizes a bandage and fur cap after a famous breakdown. Both artists treated self-portraiture as a serious art form, not a mere snapshot of vanity.
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Alex Katz
Face Of The Poet 1, 1978
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Snigger, From Engravings With Sounds, 2015
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Kinetic Box, 1964
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Figure, 1948
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Les Oiseleurs I, 1951
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Centenaire De Mourlot, 1952
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Masque, 1971
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Rene Magritte
Salon De Mai, 1965
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Seascape No 1, 1964
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Composition No 3, From 12 Etchings, 2007
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Gold, 1969
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Signal, 1979
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Composition '5 E'. Induction Chromatique, 1974
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Ericsson Display Monitor Unit 3111, Wrapped, Project For Personal Computer, 1985
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Three Cows, 1991
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Wallflowers (Aqua And Orange), 2018
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Sean Scully
Widely acclaimed for his abstract oil paintings, Sean Scully is an artist whose works often combine geometric structures with contrasting soft edges and thick uneven surfaces to form alternating panels of coloured squares or stripes – such works as Green Ascending and Rouge perfectly exemplify his trademark style of painting. Although his abstract works appear to have no specific reference, Scully’s previous employment as a typesetter had a great bearing on his later artistic outputs, and of his
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Alex Katz
Renowned for his brightly coloured figurative and landscape paintings, Alex Katz is a notable artist whose work bridges the gap between the styles of representation and formalism –among his most frequently referenced subjects are landscapes of New York and Maine, as well as portraits of his wife and muse, Ada. Such works as Pansies and West Palm Beach perhaps best exemplify his quintessentially American take on the classical themes of portraiture and landscape via the use of his flat colour and
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From Self-Portraits to Selfies: The Evolution of Self-Expres...
By Nana Japaridze
In 1660, Rembrandt painted himself with unflinching honesty. In this self-portrait, he shows every furrow and fold of age. He had suffered loss and bankruptcy by then, and his weary gaze is almost pa
