Museum refuses to remove crucified frog sculpture Aug 29, 2008
The museum said the one-metre-tall sculpture has nothing to dowith religion, but is an ironic self-portrait of the artist and an expression of his angst. "With humour and a tragicomic sense, which belongs to art since the times of Greek tragedy, Kippenberger ... faces his condition of suffering, which he expresses in many works, also, for example, in a video in which he crucifies himself," the museum said in a statement. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Italy museum defies the Pope Aug 29, 2008
Museum officials said the artist considered it a self-portrait illustrating human angst. The Vatican wrote a letter of support in the pope's name to Franz Pahl, president of the regional government who opposed the sculpture. (India Times, India)
Museum defies pope over crucified frog Aug 29, 2008
Museum officials in the northern bi-lingual Alto Adige region near the Austrian border said the artist, who died in 1997, considered it a self-portrait illustrating human angst. Pope Benedict, who is German himself and was recently on holiday not far from Bolzano, obviously did not agree. (Yahoo News)
Artful mix matches emotions and fashion Aug 28, 2008
At the opposite end of the spectrum are the satirical works by Candice Smith Corby, currently the director of the Cushing-Martin Gallery at Stonehill College, a position Lynch held prior to joining the WSRC. One piece is a vintage '50s housedress on which Corby has painted a self-portrait of her head topped with a soaring and unstable pile of domestic items. "On the surface it's about women's impossible balancing act," says Lynch, but on closer examination, the placement of various household... (Boston Globe)
At the Met, portraits of an alternate history Aug 28, 2008
Thomas Ruff and Hiroshi Sugimoto are here, but so are Janice Guy, an artist turned dealer who is benefiting from a sudden interest in her early self-portraits, and Mark Wyse, a young photographer who is also active as a curator ... Guy's untitled self-portrait from 1979 flirts with the exhibitionism of artists like Acconci and Robert Mapplethorpe. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Still painting after all these years Aug 22, 2008
Her works include scenes from Beacon Hill and the North End, as well as a self-portrait she made 62 years ago. ("Manny" is above. (Boston Globe)
Re-View Exhibition at Harvard Art M... Aug 22, 2008
Works on view include: Self-portrait in Tuxedo (1927) by Max Beckman; High Street (1950) by Franz Kline; (1950) by Jackson Pollock; and Back Support for a Fine-Limbed Person (Hare Type) of the 20th Century (1972) by Joseph Beuys. Asian and Islamic Art. (Suite101.com)
Wedding artifacts from kimonos to crowns on exhibit at Peabody Essex Aug 16, 2008
Neither did the impressive marriage proposal - a painted self-portrait framed in a silver locket - sent by an 18-year-old Benjamin West to his beloved, Elizabeth Steele. Steele kept the miniature but rejected West. (Boston Globe)
Hammershoi's decade of brilliance, before banality set in Aug 15, 2008
In a self-portrait painted in 1890, he looks ahead, his eyes very slightly cast down, absorbed in his thoughts. His expression is one of gravity, not distress, as if he had just been made aware of the importance of some fundamental purpose. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Cultivating Creativity children's art exhibit presented in Charleston Aug 13, 2008
Flick completed the crayon Self Portrait while in kindergarten at Mark Twain Elementary School ... Sweeney s watercolor and marker piece, Mystical Magritte, Self Portrait, was made in the 6th grade at Jefferson Elementary School. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Little to hear, but a lot to take in Aug 13, 2008
The most striking, though, is a defiantly straightforward self-portrait. Riceboy Sleeps, an art-and-music duo made up of Jonsi Birgisson of Sigur R s and Alex Somers of Parachutes, show works combining photos and drawings, often torn and faded, that convey touching nostalgia for a childhood lost. (Boston Globe)
Tracey Emin - dirty sheets and all Aug 5, 2008
One of my favourite works in this retrospective is an uncharacteristic self-portrait consisting of a rusty old bathtub filled with bamboo poles, several spirals of barbed wire and a sinuous tube of pink neon light. Here are the contradictory qualities of her character laid bare: aggressive, difficult and spiky, but also capable of moments of delicate, tremulous beauty. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Tracey Emin achieves eminence at last as enfant terrible grows up Aug 3, 2008
Her famous 2000 photographic self-portrait of the artist giving birth to a mass of bank notes, ironically entitled I ve Got It All, now seems cruelly prescient. Since her split from the artist Mat Collishaw in 2003, Emin has been seeing photographer Scott Douglas. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Freud portrait breaks art record Jul 30, 2008
A self-portrait by Bacon is expected to fetch up to 12m at a Sotheby's auction, also in London, on Thursday. Another Bacon, Landscape with a Car, was bought for 4. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Chinese women's art takes on a man's world Jul 30, 2008
Her floor-to-ceiling installations of self-portrait photographs anchored by braids of white yarn are fixtures in international shows. She and Wang live in one of Beijing's many gated high-rises for urban professionals; their joint studio is an antiques-filled farmhouse on the outskirts of the city, where, with a small staff of seamstresses, Lin produces ghostly - and expensive-looking - soft sculptures swelling with egg- and breast-shaped forms in pristine white silk. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Stories without words Jul 28, 2008
Parenteau's partner, photographer Peter von Gaza, tells her, "You keep painting your self-portrait.". The artist herself is not so sure. (Anchorage Daily News)
Book Review: It's Not a Bird Yet by... Jul 28, 2008
Techniques can be as simple as photographing children pulling a funny face then allowing them to use that photo to inspire a self-portrait drawing. Equipping Adults to Join Children on their Creative Journey. (Suite101.com)
Student artists hone skills at special summer school Jul 27, 2008
"I've never done anything like this," said first-year consortium student and rising seventh-grader Megan Yessler, pointing out her colored tissue creation and oil pastel pieces, which included a self-portrait. "But I did enjoy it.". (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Stellar results for Christie's mask deep fault lines in market Jul 25, 2008
Francis Bacon's "Triptych," a triple self-portrait which, at 26. 34 million, became the second most expensive painting sold at Christie's since January, was painted in 1974-77. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
High praise for the icons of lowbrow art Jul 21, 2008
Humor and wit is central to the early examples in this show, like Roth's Rat Fink painting, Crumb's self-portrait and Mouse's painting of a crazed looking cop, Super Fuzz (1964). They also cared a lot less than a Schorr or a Ryden whether their work was seen as art. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Le Louvre Inc. Jul 20, 2008
SHOCK THERAPY: Louvre director Loyrette is shaking things up by introducing controversial new works like Fabre's Self-Portrait as the World's Biggest Worm ULRICH LEBEUF / MYOP FOR TIME Article Tools. Even by her own exacting standards, the black-tie gala that Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash organized in Paris on June 10 was exceptional. (Time.com)
Art for art's sake Jul 16, 2008
Eliza Wiley, IR Photo Editor - Colton Anderson, 12, puts the finishing touches on his Picasso-style self-portrait during an art camp put on by the 21st Century Community Learning Center in Townsend each summer ... Tuesday morning, Kallie Audet s middle school and high school students were quietly intent, painting luminous self-portraits ... Across the hallway from Audet, Caitlin Field, a Montana State University graphic-design student, had her students doing a variety of self-portraits. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
A Show To Hold Your Nose For Jul 14, 2008
Page Six has seen two of the photos, including "Bull[bleep]" and "Self Portrait" - which are both of feces. "He's very influential, so there has been a lot of speculation about what the content of this new show will be, but no one has guessed correctly so far," said the source. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Thousands pour in for reopening of Space 301 Jul 13, 2008
People's Choice ($250 prizes): Vicki Pirtle, "Between Us"; Ted Burn, "Self Portrait"; Stephanie Norman, untitled. Press-Register/CLA ($100 prizes): Jacklyn Benedict, Lynda Touart, Douglas Spence, Lindy Hawthorne, Pinky/MM Bass, Georgia Godwin, April Hopkins, Nikkita Bhakta, Casey Downing Jr., Bertice McPherson. (AL.com)
Our critics go back to school Jul 7, 2008
I remember being made to do a self-portrait and sitting in the bathroom scrutinising my face in the mirror. It was the only sensitive assignment I ever got, the only time school art classes seemed to rise above the level of sticking straws together. (Guardian Unlimited)
So far, sew good: life after Archibald Jul 5, 2008
The waiting list of hopeful buyers has lengthened since she won the country's most famous art prize for a self-portrait with her two children. "Of course, I could easily sell a big painting, and in a way that would have been the obvious thing to do for the Melbourne Art Fair," she says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Culture shock, German-style Jul 5, 2008
There is a wonderfully bitter self-portrait by Dix in this exhibition that shows him scowling, with protruding lip, jutting chin and furrowed brow. Nearby is a self-portrait by Kathe Kollwitz, who suffered even more profoundly during the Third Reich, but her face remains calm and serene ... Along with Heckel, Beckmann is the artist best represented in this survey, with eight pieces, including four self-portraits. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Visions of the harem Jul 5, 2008
A carefully staged self-portrait, it brings to mind Byron's satirical proposal to "sell you, mix'd with western sentimentalism, / Some samples of the finest Orientalism". Compare that weary, wary gaze, the grip on the sword, the uneasy feet, with William Holman Hunt's Self-Portrait in Oriental Costume (1867/75). (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Tom Roberts work stolen from ANU Jul 4, 2008
The theft comes a year after a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Frans van Mieris, A Cavalier (Self Portrait), was stolen from the Art Gallery of NSW. That painting, valued at $1. 4million, had been unscrewed from the wall. (Australian IT)
How much did this Jeff Koons' sculpture fetch at auction? Jul 1, 2008
Bacon's previously unseen Three Studies for a Self Portrait - owned by the same person since it was painted in the mid-1970s - sold for 17. 3m. (BBC News -- UK)
Francis Bacon self-portraits fetch $34.5 million Jul 1, 2008
"Three Studies for a Self Portrait," a 1975 work by British artist Francis Bacon, sold at auction for $34 ... Bacon painted the Three Studies for a Self Portrait in Paris in 1975 ... It is the first of a series of self portraits he painted around that time. (MSNBC -- News)
Bacon's Somber Self-Portraits Fetch $34.5 Million at Art Auction in London Jul 1, 2008
Bacon Self-Portraits Fetch $34 ... July 1 (Bloomberg) -- A 1975 set of three self-portraits by Francis Bacon fetched 17 ... At least four bidders competed for the 14-inch-high, gray- hued oil canvases ``Three Studies for Self-Portrait,'' featuring faces that are twisted, sliced and gorged. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Otto Hall provides an object lesson in the perils of museum design Jun 29, 2008
The museum owned world-class works by such artists as Joseph Beuys and Max Beckmann - the self-portrait of Beckmann in a tuxedo is one of Harvard's unforgettable treasures - and also housed frequent touring exhibitions. If there were going to be any air leaks through the exterior walls, the curators wanted to be sure the air would leak out of the building, not into it. (Boston Globe)
'So true, so intimate' Jun 28, 2008
The exhibition catalogue provides some photos of this long-forgotten, late-rediscovered original, supplementing the single, reticent early self-portrait included in the display. He cuts a slight but crisp figure in his nice neat suit - level-tempered, even a little dapper; unassertive, yet undoubtedly self-possessed. (Guardian Unlimited)
Monet painting sells for $80.5 million Jun 25, 2008
On Monday Christie's expects Bacon's "Three Studies for Self-Portrait" to sell for more than $19. 7 million, and a Jeff Koons sculpture called "Balloon Flower (Magenta)" to make about $23. (MSNBC -- News)
Girlz on the hood Jun 24, 2008
Every exhibition at the Serpentine gallery in London now has to have a dramatic opening: last time it was a self-portrait by Maria Lassnig, naked and pointing a gun at us, another gun pressed to her temple; Anthony McCall opened his show last year with a projector aimed straight at the door, like a Gatling gun. Such gambits are designed to make us forget the gallery was once just a tea house in Kensington Gardens. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
New Mural Is Wild Jun 24, 2008
It has been said that every painting, in some way, becomes a self-portrait of its creator. Balls passionate involvement with the natural world is plain to see. (The Exeter Sun, CA)
Can Tech Sort Fake Rembrandt From Real? Jun 24, 2008
But last week, an investigation by the Rembrandt Research Project confirmed that it was indeed a self-portrait by the legendary painter himself ... X-rays, for instance, revealed another painting beneath the self-portrait that exhibited qualities similar to other Rembrandt paintings, evidence that evaluators were unable to discern. (ABC News)
'Fake' Rembrandt Worth Millions Jun 20, 2008
The 1628 self-portrait "Rembrandt Laughing" by Rembrandt is seen, in Amsterdam, Netherlands ... 5 million at an English auction house in October is a self-portrait by the Dutch master himself, depicted with his head tilted back in easygoing laughter ... "A self-portrait by Rembrandt, that's absolutely unique not in my lifetime," Six said. (Time.com)
Review: 'Frida Kahlo' at SFMOMA Jun 15, 2008
We see those qualities throughout "Frida Kahlo," especially in the many self-portraits ... In a fully realized picture such as "Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" (1940), she treats the painting as a mirror that delivers a reflection of her truer than what those who met her in life could see. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Thomson fifth-grader's award brings $1,500 to school Jun 14, 2008
A colored pencil self portrait done last fall expertly captures her look. Bryana said she was also surprised when she learned her highly detailed and original pen and ink dragon would be on the cover of the winter 2008 Apple Seed Literary Magazine, which features writing and artwork of students in the third through fifth grades in Lawrence, Andover, North Andover and Methuen. (North Andover Citizen, MA)
A carry-on in the kasbah Jun 9, 2008
One of the strangest images here is Lewis's self-portrait as a Muslim praying in a mosque, a scene of transcendent stillness. Quite why this Christian from the Shires depicts himself this way is one of the show's many mysteries - as puzzling as Holman Hunt's decision to paint the Sphinx from the least recognisable angle. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Renaissance show has blockbuster credentials Jun 4, 2008
One of the highlights will be the reunion for the first time since the 18th century of Van Eyck's self-portrait, in which he sports a scarlet turban, with his portrait of his wife, Margaret. On loan from Sweden will be Giuseppe Arcimboldo's portrait of Emperor Rudolf II, in which the subject is depicted entirely by fruit and vegetables. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Local art collectors: Ann Hooper Jun 4, 2008
Alabama folk artist's self-portrait makes Atlantan happy. By The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 06/01/08. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Schneider's photos add a dose of science Jun 2, 2008
Among the striking images in Gary Schneider's series "Genetic Self-Portrait" is this 1998 view of his retinas ... Looking at his series, Genetic Self-Portrait, you believe him ... He decided to use himself as subject, which was in line with his strong interest in portraiture and self-portraiture. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R)'s Circle of Promise Welcomes Gabrielle Union, Lalah Hathaway, Synthia SAINT JAMES as National Ambassadors May 30, 2008
Hathaway's 4th solo album, "Self Portrait," will be released June 3rd on the Stax Records/Concord Music Group label. Synthia SAINT JAMES. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
A Beryl of Laughs! Life-affirming painter Beryl Cook passes away at 81 May 29, 2008
Beryl Cook 'self-portrait. And in contrast to the loud and expansive characters she painted - be they the prostitutes or sailors who came into the Dolphin - Cook herself was intensely shy and deliberately avoided the limelight. (Daily Mail)
Review: The unflinching eye May 28, 2008
He even, at the age of 46, painted himself doing a self-portrait in a majo 's (wide-boy's) outfit. His letters to friends sketch the enthusiasms of a youngish man on the make, rising fast. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Holocaust historians blast MFA stance in legal dispute May 28, 2008
"Two Nudes" is a self-portrait with Alma Mahler (wife of the composer Gustav Mahler), with whom the artist had an affair. Other Kokoschka paintings have sold at auction in recent years for as much as $1 million. (Boston Globe)
The book of revelations May 24, 2008
By the time she writes Middlemarch, aged 50, she can look upon her young self with satirical good humour (Dorothea is, in large part, a satirical self-portrait) and clinical self-knowledge. She is able to identify her own mistake. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A brush with Picasso May 24, 2008
Philippe Saunier, who has been co-ordinating the loan of the works from the Musee National Picasso in Paris, says: "We are sending you many wonderful works. There is the portrait of a Spanish dancer and the self-portrait by Miro. We will also lend you a famous painting by Matisse, Still Life with Oranges, done in 1912. "And there is one of his portraits that Picasso loved most Marguerite. There are also African masks, and we have some works done by Picasso to show the links between his own work... (Courier Mail)
Artist wears leather and lingerie May 24, 2008
BEIJING, May 24 -- Catherine Cameron is both photographer and model in a dark series of self-portraits in which she is masculine and feminine, fierce and fragile, clad in leather and lingerie ... Her 32 black-and-white self-portraits are on exhibit in Red Town Salon Gallery in Shanghai Sculpture Space ... In Cameron's case, according to Loh, self-portrait becomes disguise, disfiguration, even outrageous caricature of oneself as transvestite. (Xinhuanet, China)
3 generations of Vietnamese artists and their memories of war May 23, 2008
Singapore Art Museum "Self-Portrait under the Moonlight," by Nguyen Quan (born in 1948) ... Nudes were viewed as decadent, self-portraits as indulgent and self-expression was discouraged ... "Post-Doi Moi became a period of liberation of expression so a lot of artists took the genre of self-portrait because they saw it as the ultimate in self-expression. Self-portraits also allowed them to give commentaries on changing attitudes, talk about the pining for the past that is fast disappearing," Fan... (International Herald Tribune)
'My camera has saved my life' May 22, 2008
She curled up with her boyfriend Brian, and later shot a bruised self-portrait after he hit her. Down the corridor, in Goldin's living room, among her collection of religious relics and Virgin Mary statues, a pair of assistants are finalising two slide-shows, to be projected in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern this weekend; there will be specially composed live music. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Tragedy with poetry May 21, 2008
I was touched by photographs as different as Anthony Browell's swirling black and white pin-hole picture of Liz Williamson and Elizabeth Harvey's introspective, sensual colour self-portrait. The winning Head On entry "Sweet Dreams", by Brendan Esposito, a Herald photographer, suggested press photographers now document social tragedies like child drug addiction with subtle, poetic compositions undreamed of a generation ago. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Inspiration arrives early for artist May 21, 2008
His "The Art of Cubism," for example, is a self-portrait that vibrates. The black-lined drawing veers toward abstraction, with its diagonal lines and hip use of purples, greens, pinks and yellows. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Abramovich 'buys 60m paintings' May 20, 2008
Bacon's Three Studies for a Self Portrait is expected to fetch more than 10m at the same Christie's Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 30 June. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Rohm and Haas Recognizes Four Local Art Students for Outstanding Achievement May 20, 2008
The artwork, a vibrant oil paint on canvas, is a self portrait that abstractly highlights the students flowing hair. I read the book Hair story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharps, Cotton remarked. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Boris Johnson, by his mother Charlotte Johnson Wahl May 18, 2008
"Actually, that's a self-portrait," she says. "He's very talented, he paints whenever he can.". (Telegraph.co.uk)
See hospitals through teens' eyes May 18, 2008
SpecialPorsche, a 16-year-old patient at Wolfson Children's Hospital, took a self-portrait using the reflection in a "Get Well" balloon during her stay ... One teen, Porsche, took a self-portrait using the reflection in a mylar "Get Well" balloon. (Florida Times-Union)
Market exuberance surprises even the professionals May 17, 2008
Two lots down, Francis Bacon's 1976 "Three Studies for Self-Portrait," in which the English painter handles his face as if it had been bashed in and given a black eye, soared to $28 million. Apparently just enough to satisfy the consignor's hubris, the price "only" matched the lower estimate. (International Herald Tribune)
More of this story May 17, 2008
The storm-tossed water, boxing gloves and rose-colored glasses in "Untitled Self-Portrait" are mesmerizing illusions, appearing more real than it would seem possible with the medium. Jacobs said she does research before putting pencil to paper and sometimes makes her own models. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Plenty of fat on Bacon's works May 16, 2008
Another Bacon triptych, Studies For Self Portrait, sold for $US28 million at Christie's in New York on Tuesday. Reuters, Associated Press. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Some records remain criminally underrated May 16, 2008
BOB DYLAN, NEW MORNING (1970): Released between the less-than-definitive Self-Portrait and Planet Waves , this Dylan record often gets lumped in with the records released during one of his least productive periods. In truth, it's a bold, sometimes challenging and always invigorating set of songs that showcases Big Bob's willingness to experiment. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Freud portrait breaks art record May 15, 2008
A self-portrait by Bacon is expected to fetch up to 12m at a Sotheby's auction, also in London, on Thursday. Another Bacon, Landscape with a Car, was bought for 4. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
