Title: SELF-PORTRAITS
1SELF-PORTRAITS
- A Reflection of Infinite Possibilities
- compiled by PEK
- March 2009
2Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 1653 Italian)
Women Artists Before 20th Century
Marie-Denise Villers ( 1774 1821 French)
Marie Bashkirtseff (1858 1884 Russian)
- Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, circa
1630. Note the pulled-up sleeve on the arm
holding the brush.
Young Woman Drawing, 1801, thought to be her
self-portrait, and her most famous and finest
painting.
Self-portrait with a Palette, 1880 was a Russian
born artist who died at twenty-five. A large
number of Bashkirtseff's works were destroyed by
the Nazis during World War II
3Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
- You can't be at the pole and the equator at the
same time. You must choose your own line, as I
hope to do, and it will probably be colour. - If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot
paint," then by all means paint and that voice
will be silenced. - What would life be if we had no courage to
attempt anything?
4Paul Klee (1879 1940 Swiss)
- A line is a dot that went for a walk.
5Frida Kahlo (1907 1954 Mexican)
- "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am
the subject I know best."
6Pablo Picasso (1881 1973 Spanish)
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside
the face, or what's behind it?
1972 Facing Death
- 1907 Rose to African Period
7Joan Miro (1893 -1983 Spanish)
My work is intended as a poem translated into
music by a painter.
8mirror glass mirrors became available in Europe
in the 15th century. The first mirrors used were
convex, introducing deformations that the artist
sometimes preserved. A painting by Parmigianino
in 1524 Self-portrait in a mirror, demonstrates
the phenomenon.
- Diego Velazquez, Lax Meninas, 1656 (English The
Maids of Honour)
9Norman Rockwell, 1960
Johannes Gumpp, 1646
Triple Self-Portraits