Thursday, January 23, 2014

Assignment #1: Self Portrait Artists

 I chose Rembrandt as my first artist self portrait. I chose him because I'm fairly familiar with his body of work. I also love oil paintings which he did a lot of. I chose this self portrait because it was on of his last, and I think it's amazing that he has still doing self portraits near his death.
For the next artist self portrait I choose Albrecht Durer. I chose him because he is one of my uncles favorite artist. I used this self portrait because he pantieed it showing his lazy eye.
For my last artist self portrait I chose Paul Cezanne. I chose him because I know who he is. I choose this self portrait because of his advance age. I thought it interesting his continued effort to capture his likeness in a self portrait.







I think artist do self portraits for the same reason people stare in the mirror; either they love or loath themselves. That coupled with a need to practice drives most artist to make self portraits in their various media.