Self Portraits: Styles &

Artist Examples

Self portrait by Egon Schiele, 1913

Realistic Self-Portraits

Courbet, 1850

Realistic Self-Portraits

Raphael, 1506 Leonardo da Vinci, 1512

Realistic Self-Portraits

Jan van Eyck, 1433 Durer, 1500

Realistic Self-Portraits

Chuck Close • American painter, born in 1940 • Known for large-scale, photorealist style • Close suffers from prosopagnosia – cannot recognize faces • Paralyzed from neck down after seizure in 1988

Impressionist Self-Portraits

Van Gogh, 1889 Chuck Close, 2009

Impressionist Self-Portraits

Mary Cassatt, 1880

Matisse, 1906

Audrey Anastasi,

Lupo, 2005

Impressionist Self-Portraits

Surrealist Self-Portraits

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

• Mexican painter, born in 1907 • Themes include isolation, pain, emotional struggle, and female identity

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta Construction Chart #2, 1975

Beverly McIver, Can You Hear My Silent

Scream?, 2004

Expressionist Self-Portraits

Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1976

Sophie Matisse, Gaia, 2011

Realism: grid-system; Da Vinci, Raphael, Jan van Eyck, Durer Chuck Close: can’t recognize faces (prosopagnosia); works in large scale; partially paralyzed Impressionism: looser interpretations; simplified shape, line, color; color to create mood; show brush strokes and paint Frida Kahlo: themes: emotion, dreams, pain, depression, female identity, surrealist Surrealism: imaginative, fantasy, altered reality, dream-like, realism combined with unexpected or unusual things Expressionism: movement, messy, energy, action, experimental

Be prepared to use your notes as we review these words and artists:

Answer at least 5 of these questions as you plan and sketch: What view of your face will you show? (front, profile) Will you show your whole face or cover part of it? What might you cover it with? Will your eyes look at the viewer or away? Will your eyes be open or closed? What will you be wearing? What environment will you be in? (real, imagined, inside, outside) Will you show some other part of your body instead of your face? (hands, feet) Will anyone or anything else be in the artwork with you? What kind of mood do you want to create? What color scheme would you like to use? Which style will you work in? (Realistic, Impressionist, Surrealist, Expressionist) What mix of materials do you want to use?