"...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