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Edvard Munch was born in a farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway, to Laura Catherine Bjølstad and Christian Munch, the son of a priest.Christian was a doctor and medical officer who married Laura, a woman half his age, in 1861.
This self-portrait of Picasso was painted in 1901, when he was a young man aged 19 who had recently arrived in Paris. The year was a significant point in the artist's career, as it was in the June of that year when Picasso's career as an artist was launched at his first exhibition at the gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
A self-portrait of a colorless, but youthful, rounded oval face, in full-frontal view, emerges from a reddish-brown, textured, but indistinct background; the eyes of the face are open but the body belonging to the face is abstract, blurred by pencil strokes and the color of sepia ink; [1] the clothing worn by the subject is indistinguishable as it dissolves into the background with each pencil ...
Self-Portrait (Ellen Thesleff) Self-Portrait (Ingres) Self-Portrait (Lampi) Self-Portrait Aged 24; Self-Portrait Aged 71; Self-Portrait as a Female Martyr; Self-Portrait as a Soldier; Self-Portrait as a Tahitian; Self-portrait as David; Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting; Self-Portrait at 6th Wedding Anniversary; Self-Portrait at 69 years
Las Meninas, painted in 1656, shows Diego Velázquez working at the easel to the left.. Self-portraiture has a long history. In Reynolds & Peter's analysis, the handprints that prehistoric humanity left in cave paintings can be considered precursors of the self-portrait, as they are a direct document of the author's presence in the creative act and his perception of the existence of a "self".
Merahi metua no Tehamana (English Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana) is an 1893 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. [1] The painting is a portrait of Paul Gauguin's wife Teha'amana during his first visit to Tahiti in 1891–1893. This marriage has always ...
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Self-Portrait: Autorretrato: Fresco mounted on metal, 62.8 x 48.2 cm [3] Private Collection, Monterrey [3] 1933 Self-Portrait – Very Ugly: Autorretrato – muy fea: Fresco mounted on masonite, 27.4 x 22.2 cm Private collection, Dallas, Texas, United States 1933 Self-Portrait with Necklace: Autorretrato con collar: Oil on metal, 34.5 x 29.5 cm