SELF-PORTRAITS

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SELF-PORTRAITS

• A Reflection of Infinite Possibilities
• compiled by PEK
• March 2009

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Artemisia 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
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Vincent 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?

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Paul Klee (1879 1940 Swiss)

• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

• Lost in Thought, 1917

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Frida Kahlo (1907 1954 Mexican)

• "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am
  the subject I know best."

• 1925 Bus Accident

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Pablo Picasso (1881 1973 Spanish)
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside
the face, or what's behind it?

• 1901
• Yo Picasso

1972 Facing Death

• 1907 Rose to African Period

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Joan Miro (1893 -1983 Spanish)
My work is intended as a poem translated into
music by a painter.
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mirror 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)

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Norman Rockwell, 1960
Johannes Gumpp, 1646
Triple Self-Portraits