below: b.l.u. 13 (best left unsaid) stage 1
i will continue work on this painting, based on photos i shot at MOMA in 2008, tomorrow.
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row 1: rembrandt self portrait mid-career, catherine opie self portrait, 1993
row 2: rembrandt towards the end of his life and as a young man
row 3: vermeer, lucien freud
row 4: lucien freud nude self portrait, tsarouchis self portrait as a student
row 5: tsarouchis self portrait on the albanian front during w.w. II
i am contemplating the self portrait today, as i launch into b.l.u. 13 (see yesterday's post to view the drawing and photo i'm working from.) what is a self portrait? more about this later today.
2:54 update: the self portraits below illustrate a number of themes: youth-middle age and old age; the artist turning his/her back; full frontal nudity with a ballsy "this is how it is" attitude. what do they reveal/ what do they hide? and why, as i believe, everything we do a self portrait?
