Self Portraits The approach others have taken throughout history
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BAROQUE 16OO First appearance of the Self Portrait During this time the artist became more than just an artisan
CHARDIN SELF PORTRAIT
REMBRANDT SELF PORTRAIT
RUBENS SELF PORTRAIT
Revolution & Restoration Classicism Romanticism Realism Pre-Raphaelites
INGRES CLASSICISM MADAME d’hAUSSONVILLE
DELACROIX ROMANTICISM ORPHAN GIRL IN A CEMETERY
GERICAULT ROMANTICISM INSANE
CAROT REALISM WOMAN WITH A PEARL
ROSSETTI PRE-RAPHAELITE MONNA VANNA
Impressionists Concerned with capturing a fleeting moment in time Concern with reflected light Pure color applied to canvas allowing the eye to blend the colors
CEZANNE SELF PORTRAIT WITH ROSES
VAN GOGH POST IMPRESSIONIST SELF PORTRAIT WITH EAR BANDADGED
DEGAS PORTRAITS IN AN OFFICE
20TH CENTURY FAUVISM EXPRESSIONISM CUBISM POP ART PHOTOREALISM
MATISSE FAUVIST Mme MATISSE THE RED MADRAS HEADRESS
SCHIELE EXPRESSIONISTEXPRESSIONIST SELF PORTRAIT WITH BLACK VASE
KATHE KOLLWITZ SELF PORTRAIT AT THE TABLE ETCHING
Oskar Kokoschka Self-portrait of a "Degenerate Artist"
Francis Bacon Portrait of Michel Leris, 1976
Edvard Munch The Scream
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Two Women in the Street 1914
ROUALT
PICASSO FACING DEATH CUBISM
POPARTPOPART HOCKNEY
Andy Warhol Pop Art
Chuck Close Photo-Realism Leslie Photorealism
C H U C K C L O S E
Chuck Close Photo-Realism Self Portrait “I paint heads because heads matter to everybody. If you paint a face big enough, it’s hard to ignore.” “My real subjects are not people, I paint portraits of photographs” “If you make something new and personal, it may not look like art at all.”
April 1991
Elizabeth 1989 CHUCKCLOSECHUCKCLOSE
Lucas 1991
Roy II
Self portraits
Jenny Saville