Post on 22-Jun-2015
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Self portraits
How artists interpret themselves
Self Portrait with Felt hat 1887
V
an Gogh didn’t mix colours
o
n his palette but put different
c
oloured brushstrokes next to each
o
ther on the canvas.
Self Portrait 1886
The chosen colours tell
us how he is feeling.
What do you think he is
telling us about himself in
this portrait?
Self Portrait 1889
Now let’s take a look at this painting up close.
He used thick brushstrokes: dots, short stripes, parallel marks, lined up straight, radiating from a point, angled lined, curved brushstrokes and lots of cross hatching.
Self Portrait 1896
Paul Gaugin, a French artist attempted to paint the many different sides of his character.
What do you think he is trying to tell us here?
Might not a painter’s choice of lines and colors give
an indication of his character, whether it is noble or
common . . . —January 1885 to friend Emile
Schuffenecker
What does he tell us here
Can you see any symbols in the painting which tell us something of his character?
Why do you think he uses these colours?
Is this the same Gauguin?
What do you think about him now?
Take a look at Andy Warhol
This is what he thought
I
am a deeply superficial person. —Andy Warhol
I
f you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look
at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and
there I am. There’s nothing behind it. —Andy Warhol
Self Portrait 1986
How does this make you feel?
Self Portrait 1964