portraiture & artist as self and the subject the desperate man, gustave courbet, oil on canvas,...

Portraiture & Artist as Self and the Subject

The Desperate Man, Gustave Courbet, Oil on Canvas, 17.7 x 21.7” 1844=45

When were the first self-portraits made?

• Early Renaissance (15th)• 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 frameOil on Panel10.2 x 7.5”1433

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 29” 1638-9

Van Gogh’s Self portrait withbandaged ear1889

Dr.Gachet

Self_Portrait Paula Moderson-BecherTempera on Paper62 x 48cm1906

Self_Portrait withThornNecklace andHummingbird

Frida Kahlo’s Venadito 1946

Contemporary Portraiture

The Three Graces, Kehinde Wiley, Oil and enamel on canvas, 2005

Raphael, 1500 - 1505

Sandro Botticelli, 1444 – 1510

Officer of The Hussars, Oil on canvas, 108 x 108” 2007

Officer of The Hussars,Jean-Louis-Andre-Theodore GericaultOil on canvas1814

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