#self-portraiture tag

Medieval Self-Portraits: Ten Artists Who Put Themselves in the Picture - Medievalists.net

Medieval self-portraits functioned as devotional, personal, and social statements revealing how individuals in the Middle Ages wanted to be seen.

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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events

2 weeks ago

Arnulf Rainer, a revolutionary figure in postwar Austrian art, has died aged 96

Arnulf Rainer, an Austrian avant-garde artist known for gestural paintings confronting the Holocaust and Hiroshima and experimental self-portraiture, has died aged 96.

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fromVulture

3 weeks ago

How the Painter Sasha Gordon Marshaled Her Monsters

Sasha Gordon created a surreal, ambitious series of self-portrayal paintings depicting apocalyptic, often violent alter-egos, produced through obsessive, intense labor.

fromAnOther

2 months ago

"His Writing Feels Like Life Itself": Lina Scheynius on Herve Guibert

In Hervé Guibert's book Ghost Image, he writes about preparing to take a portrait of his mother. It's so vivid in its description. Even though the book has no images, I can envision the photograph so clearly. He goes to great lengths to ensure the image is perfect, that his mother looks a certain way. At the end of the essay, we learn that the film was blank - there is no photograph.

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fromAnOther

2 months ago

Arvida Bystrom Wants to Reinvent What We're Longing For

Arvida Byström blends Nordic nature, folklore and selfie culture with digital art and AI to interrogate influencer myth, female sexuality and online embodiment.

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fromThe New Yorker

3 months ago

The Original Brooklyn Selfie King

A Brooklyn man in the 1930s–40s repeatedly photographed himself, using studio techniques to craft and record his public persona, family life, and artistic practice.

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fromVulture

3 months ago

The Dream Weaver

Erin M. Riley transforms weaving into confrontational, large-scale tapestries that combine intimate photographs, suburban and internet imagery to expose vulnerability and memory.

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fromJuxtapoz

3 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Through the "Haze" with Sasha Gordon

Sasha Gordon's hyperrealistic narrative paintings use her likeness and surreal scenarios to examine fragmented selves, memory, mythology, and psychological ambiguity through vivid, uncanny imagery.

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fromBOOOOOOOM!

4 months ago

"Acts of Observation" by Artist Rachel Gregor

Rachel Gregor's Acts of Observation presents layered, meditative figurative paintings merging observation, folklore, and uncanny color, featuring self-portraits and narrative works, on view September 6–27.

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fromOpen Culture

4 months ago

How Egon Schiele Made Enduring Art from His Troubled Life and Times

Egon Schiele used an angular, economical line to render psychological self-portraits that fuse eroticism, suffering, and body distortion into a distinctive expressive voice.

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fromHypebeast

5 months ago