The background of the portrait is a black cloth, commonly used in those days for photographic backdrops. Daddy is wearing a coat over a white T-shirt. His gaze is not directed straight at the camera ...

Self-Portrait in Black and White, by Thomas Chatterton Williams. W. W. Norton. 192 pages. $25.95. What a strange thing is “race,” and family, stranger still. “Here’s the thing. I’m a black woman from ...

Brenda Goodman, "Self-Portrait 4" (1994), oil on panel, 64 x 60 inches (all images © Brenda Goodman, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York) Brenda Goodman has ...

While some artists have been energized by the coronavirus pandemic, using their enforced time at home to make work, often in creative response to COVID-19, others soon found themselves in a sinkhole ...

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Pretty much every single one of us is deeply self-conscious. We are self-conscious because we need to associate with other people in various ways, and we worry that, if they don’t like what we have to ...

Frida Kahlo painted herself more than anyone else, not because she was vain, as she once quipped, but because she was “the subject I know best.” The line is often repeated, yet it barely captures the ...

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In mid-January 1889, three weeks after mutilating his ear, Van Gogh painted two astonishing self-portraits, depicting himself with a prominent bandage, covering his mutilated ear. The famous one is in ...

This post is in response to The Homospatial Process in Creativity By Albert Rothenberg, M.D. Rembrandt van Rijn produced the largest number of self-portraits of any major painter in history. Although ...