Renaissance is a term used to identify the period of the History of Europe approximately between the end of the XIV century ...

The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...

In the Contemporary Self-Portrait workshop, eighth grade students at John Pierce School, a kindergarten through eighth grade elementary school in Brookline, surveyed traditional and contemporary ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Despite the prevalence of self-referential and autobiographical elements in his art, Jean-Michel Basquiat rarely identified his paintings as explicit representations of himself. Now, one of the artist ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

"120 illustrations, 109 in color." In this broad cultural survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the ...

A portrait, and especially a self-portrait, demands something more penetrating than a mere likeness, something that's more creative with style, media and psychology. All those come into play in "Hokah ...

"Hotel Bedroom" (1954) by Lucian Freud, oil on canvas. Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Enveloped in crumpled white sheets, Lady Caroline Hamilton Temple Blackwood looks anything but ...

The selfie is a smartphone-produced version of the self-portrait, which has been a staple of art and photography history since artists first began seeing examining their own images in the mirror. In ...

VINCENT VAN GOGH made 30; Frida Kahlo, 55. Rembrandt van Rijn’s are thought to number in the dozens (since his apprentices often copied them, it is hard to be certain). Self-portraits have always been ...