The Self-Portrait A variety of portraits throughout history showing different Styles Technique/Media Periods in time
What is a portrait? A work of art that represents a specific person, a group of people, or an animal. Portraits usually show what a person looks like as well as revealing something about the subject's personality. Portraits can be made of any sculptural material or in any two-dimensional medium.
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. Pablo Picasso ( )
What is a self- portrait? A portrait an artist makes using himself or herself as its subject, typically influenced from a reflection in a mirror.
Detail of a still-complete portrait mummy, It was discovered by Flinders Petrie within a burial chamber in 1911.
Mummy portrait of bearded man, encaustic on wood, Royal Museum of Scotland, Excavated at Hawara by William Flinders Petrie in 1911.
Jan van Eyck A Man in a Turban (Possibly a Self-Portrait) Oil 1433
Lorenzo Ghiberti Self Portrait c 1450 East Door Florence Baptistery
Engraving by Israhel van Mekenem C
Albrecht Durer Self-Portrait 1500 Oil on panel
Rembrandt Self-portrait as a young man, Oil on Canvas c.1630
Hakuin Ekaku Self-portrait Caligraphy painting
Dante Gabriel Rossetti self portrait 1847 Color Pastel
Mathew Brady self-portrait c 1875 Photograph
Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Oil
Kaita Murayama self portrait 1918 Oil on canvas
Pablo Picasso Self-portrait 1938 Charcoal and pencil on canvas
Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Monkey oil 1940
Alice Neel Self Portrait 60s Oil on canvas
Marc Chagall Self Portrait with couple Litograph 1964
Francis Bacon Self portrait oil 1973
Chuck Close Lucas ( ) acrylic on canvas
Yan Pei-Ming self portrait 2000 Oil on Canvas
Magen Martin 2008 Fatima (portrait) batik on cotton fabric
Magen Martin 2008 Crystal (portrait) batik on Muslin fabric