Self-painting bimbo coats?
If Self's paintings are analogies for the human body, it isn't the sexual parts that are emphasised.
Autoscopic phenomena are considered at the basis of many self-portrait paintings [ 1]: Durer, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Schiele seem to have painted during autoscopic experiences.
That was in 2005, the year her self-eater paintings appeared in a show at Feuer called "Panic".
Dürer's secular, allegorical, and frequently self-enamoured paintings of this period are often either adaptations of Italian models or entirely independent creations that breathe the free spirit of the new age of the Renaissance.
(Smith) Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (through May 20) This lovely small show, focused on self-portrait paintings and prints, proposes that Rembrandt was a greater influence on Degas than has generally been recognized.
At both galleries large silkscreen self-portrait paintings, sliced together from playful images of Mr. Pruitt, suggest that he is least interesting when he is most hands-off and most visible in his art.
The voice is Mr. Izer's, and every object in the gallery was made by him, from the radio to the fireplace to the self-portrait paintings based on family photos.
With reproductions of self-portrait paintings and drawings shown with permission of the Van Gogh Museum, "Discovering van Gogh: A Forensic Study in Identification" displays not only the photos and related art but explores forensic evaluation.
(Cotter) Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (closes on Sunday) This lovely small show, focused on self-portrait paintings and prints, proposes that Rembrandt was a greater influence on Degas than has generally been recognized.
One of her paintings ("Self Portrait," from 1973), a petal-pink color field humorously transformed by a darker-pink crack at the base into an up-close rear view of a classical nude, graced the cover of the catalog.
