"...I could try to face up to my face. I could examine the ways in which it defines my nature; setting down a record of it, I could explore the assertion, 'That is me.'"

Self-Portraits to Examine:

  • Jan van Eyck: Man in the Red Turban
  • Albrecht Durer: Self-Portrait 1500
  • Caravaggio: Boy with Fruit Basket; David with Head of Goliath
  • Rembrandt van Rijn: Self-Portrait 1658; Self-Portrait 1659; Self Portrait with Two Circles 1665 - 1669
  • Rosalba Carriera: Self-Portrait as Winter
  • Gustave Courbet: Self-Portrait: The Desperate Man
  • Paul Cezanne: Self-Portrait 1880-1881
  • Eugene Carriere: Self-Portrait 1890s
  • Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat; Self Portrait 1889
  • Ferdinand Hodler: Self-Portrait 1900
  • Giacomo Balla: Self-Portrait 1902
  • Kazimar Malevich: Self-Portrait 1908
  • Egon Schiele: Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Fruit
  • Mark Tobey: Self-Portrait c. 1930
  • Jackson Pollock: Self-Portrait 1930-1933
  • Ivan Albright: Self-Portrait 1935

Self-Portraiture exists to:

  • show off talents / market oneself as a talented artist
  • show off wealth
  • show off family / heritage
  • personify / symbolize
  • make artists look cooler than they actually are by showing off all their shit
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