Portraiture & Artist as Self and the Subject The Desperate Man, Gustave Courbet, Oil on Canvas, 17.7 x =45
When were the first self-portraits made? Early Renaissance (15 th ) Mirrors available! (quantity & quality) Before that, religious AND royalty… finally the common person AND the ARTISTS chance at documenting his/her person
Portrait of a man (self-portrait?) inscribed on frame Oil on Panel 10.2 x
Adoration of the Magi, Sandro Botticelli can you locate artist? Tempera on wood, 111 x 134cm, 1475
Self_Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, Artemesia Gentileschi, Oil on Canvas, 38 x
Van Goghs Self portrait with bandaged ear 1889
Dr.Gachet
Self_Portrait Paula Moderson- Becher Tempera on Paper 62 x 48cm 1906
Self_Portrait with ThornNecklace and Hummingbird
Frida Kahlos Venadito 1946
Contemporary Portraiture
The Three Graces, Kehinde Wiley, Oil and enamel on canvas, 2005
Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, 1444 – 1510
Officer of The Hussars, Oil on canvas, 108 x
Officer of The Hussars, Jean-Louis-Andre- Theodore Gericault Oil on canvas 1814
Dana Schutz, 2005
Yang Shaobin, 1993
Title Unknown, Yang Shaobin, 1997?No. 4, Yang Shaobin, 2001
In-class today: Self-Portraits! A few tips first…
Proportions of the face