Self-portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-portraits write by Liz Rideal. This book was released on 2005. Self-portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring what motivates artists to paint or photograph themselves, the author selects over 100 self-portraits from the National Portrait Gallery to examine the style, techniques and personalities of the sitters, including William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, Angelica Kauffmann, and more.
Artist's Self Portaits
Artist's Self Portaits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Artist's Self Portaits write by Omar Calabrese. This book was released on 2006-05-01. Artist's Self Portaits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his fascinating survey, art historian Omar Calabrese reveals that self-portraits through the ages are both a reflection of the artist and of the period in which the artist lived. Organized thematically, the author first presents a basic definition of the genre of the self-portrait, interpreting the picture to be a manifestation of self identity, and including examples from an Egyptian tomb painting and pictures on stained glass during the Middle Ages and continuing to modern times. The next chapter focuses on the turning point for the establishment of the genre during the Renaissance when the status of the painter or sculptor was raised from artisan to artist and, as a result, portraits of the artist were considered worthwhile pictures. At first a self-portrait was hidden in a narrative painting: an artist would paint his image as part of a crowd scene, for example, or as a mythological figure. On the other extreme, once the genre was accepted, it was practiced by some artists—Rembrandt, van Gogh, Munch, and Dali, for instance—as almost an obsession. In contemporary art the self-portrait can become a deconstructed genre with the artist hiding or satirizing himself until he nearly disappears on the canvas. Among the 300 pictures featured here are examples by such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Velazquez, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Ingres, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gainsborough, Matisse, James Ensor, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell, and Roy Lichtenstein. This intriguing book is a fresh way to appreciate the history of art and to understand that a self-portrait is far more complex and meaningful than merely a portrait of the artist.
Just Like Me
Just Like Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Like Me write by Harriet Rohmer. This book was released on 1997. Just Like Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present self-portraits and brief descriptions that explore their varied ethnic origins, their work, and their feelings about themselves.
Mixed-Media Self-Portraits
Mixed-Media Self-Portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mixed-Media Self-Portraits write by Cate Coulacos Prato. This book was released on 2013-02-25. Mixed-Media Self-Portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring artwork from a wide range of contributors, this resource explores creative self-portraits through fun and easy exercises and essays that instruct and inspire artists working in all media. Examples of collage, fiber arts, and mixed-media artwork offer visual inspiration while essays throughout the book act as a guide to personal and artistic self-discovery. Step-by-step techniques and creative prompts are used to direct artists through different approaches to creating self-portraits while exercises utilizing collage, drawing, photography, and stitching will jump-start the creative process and get ideas flowing on paper and fabric, encouraging artists to express themselves in new ways.
Self Portraits: Fictions
Self Portraits: Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self Portraits: Fictions write by Frederic Tuten. This book was released on 2010-09-13. Self Portraits: Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique--Publisher's Weekly.
