Self Portrait

Not surprisingly, in contemporary usage or common currency, the ambivalence of alchemy is generally suppressed. For instance, in a book on Rembrandt, the historian Simon Schama, discussing a self-portrait, writes Using a soft-bristled, precisely pointed squirrel-hair brush, the... 

Dou virtually invented the niche picture, and he produced many of them. Sometimes a human figure leans out from a window frame or some object is extended outward as an illusion or trompe I oeil. Hollander writes Whether the niche pictures are allegorical self-portraits or kitchen scenes, their essential theme is always painting itself. He exploits the organization of space, along with the properties of trompe I oeil and the restrictions of the niche format, to explore and celebrate the painter s craft (50). 

Perhaps all this dated alchemical terminology seems much too richerche to you. Instead, perhaps you have read, and even agreed with, those scholars who say that this apparent self-portrait of the naked young Marcel in a train really represents him masturbating. If you believe that, then you may also... 

Man Ray [E. Radnitsky]. Self Portrait. New York McGraw-Hill, 1979. 

The Starry Night (oil), 1889 The Night Cafe (oil), 1888 Any Vincent van Gogh self-portrait... 

Visuospatial Neglect in Lovis Corinth s Self-Portraits... 

A self-portrait of William James from the 1860s. 

In 2002, using Adobe PhotoShop 6, the artist Scott Blake made an intriguing self-portrait from images of... 

Box 2.1 Self-portrait the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRa 2001)... 

Box 2.2 Self-portrait Elm Farm Research Centre (efrc 2001)... 

Box 2.4 Self-portrait Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (darcofzooi)... 

Portrait of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) Self-portrait Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming The International Organic Accreditation Service definition and statement of purpose... 

The instincts and their specific fantasy-contents are partly concrete, partly symbolical...We know that it is possible to interpret the fantasy-contents of the instincts either as signs, as self-portraits of the instincts, i.e., reductively, or as symbols, as the spiritual meaning of the natural instinct...In any particular case it is often impossible to say what is spirit and what is instinct. 49... 

Roberts, L. M., Dutton, J. E., Spreitzer, G. M., Heaphy, E. D., 8c Quinn, R. E. (2005). Composing the reflected best-self portrait Building pathways for becoming extraordinary in work organizations. Academy of Management Review, 30, 712-736. 

Patrick Kavanagh, Self-Portrait , in Antoinette Quinn (ed.), Patrick Kavanagh A Poet s Country, Selected Prose (Dublin Lilliput Press, 2003), p. 306. 

Self-portrait by Albrecht Durer "There, where the yellow spot is located, and where I point my finger at, there I feel pain". The enlarged spleen (splenomegaly) is a common concomitant feature of malaria. 

Her own self portrait is extremely provocative and consists of only her head and her feet. These are, she says, the parts of her body which people always stare at, trying to assess what it is about this woman that is different, what anatomically is not computing to their sense of the norm (Yood, 2004, pp. 27-28). The insaiption of the Hebrew word Emmet, on the head of her face, with its determined expression and a just discernible smile, plays with truth and death and produces an ambiguity which catches the viewer. 

Larry Siebert of the Conductron Corporation produced the first pulsed hologram of a person when he created a self-portrait on October 31,1967. 

Andrew s latest work can be seen at www.conceptart.org his saga of art takes him on a journey into the depths of creativity, stamina, and narcissism with his "self-portrait of the day" section, where a new self-portrait is created and displayed each and every day. His influence can be seen in the guest portrait gallery, where he has acquired a cult following of artists across the world to join him in the adventure of artistic expression and self-discovery. 

Earlier in his life, Piccardi dabbled in art as well, and one of the products of his efforts was his self-portrait, an image that has never before been published (Fig. 5.5). 

Fig. 5.5 Giorgio Piccardi, Self-Portrait. Courtesy of the family of Giorgio Piccardi...

Self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh, showing his bandaged right ear, parts of which he had cut off in 1888 while in a delusional mental state... 

Van Gogh self portrait - http //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File Vincent Willem van Gogh 106.jpg... 

Jirat-Wasiutynski et aL (1984) Jirat-Wasiutynski, V Travers Newton, H. Farrell, E. Newman, R. Vincent van Gogh s Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin . An historical and technical study Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (1984)... 

Figure 87. Canon 15 in (37.5 cm) color screen which went into production 1995. High quality rendition of artwork is extremely sensitive to flicker. The FLC freedom of flicker therefore gives an unusual means of presenting art, here illustrated by the turn of the century artist Wyspianski (self-portrait) and Bonnard (Dining Room with Garden).

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