Brenda Goodman, “Self Portrait 4” (1994), diptych, oil on wood, installation view (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) DETROIT — Brenda Goodman has been steadily doing her thing for decades, ...
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 ...
When creating a self-portrait an artist is looking to answer—and ask—the question, “Who am I?” In the upcoming National Portrait Gallery exhibition ...
The first-of-its-kind exhibition in London gives you more than 50 ways to see the artist. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — In 1993, the British painter Lucian Freud, who had just turned 70, took on one of the ...
You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. It's rare for any medium to capture the specific feeling of being a teenage girl -- it's some ephemeral mixture of ...
Face to Face: Portraits of Self and Others presents a stunning array of photographic portraits primarily drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition highlights the versatility of ...
In art history, women tend to be depicted in conventionalized ways: as sirens and vamps, mothers and madonnas, embodiments of human vanity and human vice — empty vessels for male artists to dump their ...
“Every painting is a self-portrait,” the late Boston artist Ralph Hamilton used to say. But some paintings — and drawings and photographs — really are portraits of the artist who made them. Boston’s ...
Pretty much every single one of us is deeply self-conscious. We are self-conscious because we need to associate with other people in various ways, and we worry that, if they don’t like what we have to ...
Walk into the Center for Visual Art MSU Denver, and you’ll find photographic imagery staring back at you in a stark black-and-white message of politics and the personal. The exhibition, Somnyama ...
The great Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photographic vision wasn’t limited to the intimate portraits he produced of some of the 20th century’s most famous faces, from Marilyn Monroe and Frank Lloyd Wright to ...
Vincent van Gogh’s face is one of the most recognisable in the entire art historical canon, said Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. Only a single photograph of him is known to exist, depicting the ...
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