Kids artwork: Frame it? Box it? Toss it? Oct 21, 2009
A self-portrait by 9-year-old Veronica is immortalized on a coffee mug and coaster. Other creations plaster Syx's office walls and refrigerator, and fill tote bags and boxes around the house. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
To 1/10: 'Face to Face' photo exhibit Oct 20, 2009
There is the range of artiness, from the amateur photo to the avant-garde, such as Vik Muniz's "Self Portrait After Rembrandt," which is made of photographed chocolate sauce, smeared to look like the umbers and siennas of the Dutch painter. Another polarity concerns whether the subject is caught unaware or is preening for the lens. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
David and Barbara Stahl Collection is wide-ranging and captivating Oct 18, 2009
ller, generally thought to be less acidic with his social commentary than his contemporaries, has a 1920 woodcut self-portrait here that is built from bold lines, except for the white circles that ring his eyes. The artist glitters like a dark star; it s a strong, brutal portrait. (Boston Globe)
"Mona Linda? Nah. How About Mona Lisa?" Oct 17, 2009
For example, Dutchman Johannes Vermeer painted a self-portrait called The Art of Painting. He never sold the piece, keeping it in his home until his death in 1675. (Slate)
Scientists Try to Debunk Shroud of Turin Oct 7, 2009
Group Funded by Italian Atheists, Agnostics Claims Experiment "Clearly Indicates" Shroud Was Man Made. In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
Time to shine: 89-year-old Brevard artist featured at museum Oct 4, 2009
Take a look at the self-portrait of Mildred Richardson when she was 66. The eyes tell it all: determined, unrelenting. (Florida Today)
Art.view: Against the odds Oct 4, 2009
The sculptural self-portrait, which comes in a relatively large edition of ten, was estimated at 180,000 to 250,000, but two phone bidders drove the minor work up to the major price of 493,000 ... Not only does he produce many sculptural self-portraits, he regularly works with , a photographer, to create images of Cattelan a socially awkward joker that keep his face in circulation. (The Economist)
Tiny tots destroy serenity of the surreal Oct 3, 2009
If the child could talk, which conversation do you think it would prefer: Darling, would you like to focus your still-forming eyes on the Self-portrait with Raphaelesque neck. Notice the nuances of stroke, the way Dali's eyes seem to lock on to you. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Van Dyck portrait could fetch 3m Sep 30, 2009
A self-portrait by Anthony van Dyck, owned by the same family for nearly 300 years, is expected to fetch up to 3m when it goes to auction ... The self-portrait will be part of Sotheby's Old Masters sale in December. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Artist equals record with three wins in portrait prize Sep 25, 2009
The Tasmanian's self-portrait The Old Painter, which depicts the Mexican icon Our Lady of Guadalupe floating above the artist, garnered her third Geach win - a tie for the record - in 30 years of entering. The award, chosen from 328 entrants, was held last night in the National Trust's S. H. Ervin Gallery, at Observatory Hill, in The Rocks and coincided with the gallery's reopening after a three-month upgrade that has resulted in improved entry for visitors, an enhanced art showroom, an expanded... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
‘The Cantabrigians’ shares a few residents’ favorite things Sep 25, 2009
Photographer On a table beside Baden stands a frame containing a digitally animated montage of 360 images from Baden s self-portrait project. The heap of pill bottles represent illness, since I had a pretty serious battle with cancer at one time, he says. (Boston Globe)
Rona Pondick is fluent in confluences Sep 23, 2009
The merging of a saint s head with Pondick s monkey, which is also a self-portrait, prompts even more delicious connective nuances. The suffering woman/monkey and the serene saint become aspects of a single being, shifting from the realm of the symbolic into the juicier realm of what it s really like to be human. (Boston Globe)
Chalk it up to talent, fun Sep 21, 2009
After filling their first square with pink, green, purple and blue hearts, the girls planned to tackle a self-portrait that Flewelling drew of the two. She is playing a guitar and Persinger is singing. (Sioux City Journal)
High expectations for Rembrandt Sep 19, 2009
It is one of only two works known to have been painted by the Dutch artist in 1658, the other being a Self-Portrait in New York's Frick Museum. It was last seen in public in 1970 at the Rembrandt After 300 Years exhibition in Detroit. (BBC News -- Europe)
A tale of two collections Sep 18, 2009
The modern part of the Kushner collection includes three colorful Red Grooms lithographs and a powerful self-portrait (lithograph) of Jim Dine ... Works by Alex Katz include a self-portrait and a striking silkscreen of a spruce tree in vivid colors. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Dylan to show artwork in Denmark Sep 17, 2009
Dylan painted the cover of his 1970 album Self Portrait ... The star used one of his paintings for the front cover of his 1970 album Self Portrait. (BBC News -- Europe)
* Major Van Gogh exhibition coming to Taipei museum Sep 17, 2009
A man holds up a reproduction of Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh in front of reproductions of Cypress Against a Starry Sky, right, and the Garden of the Asylum in Saint-Remy during a press conference in Taipei on Tuesday to promote the Van Gogh: the Flaming Soul exhibition, which will open at the National Museum of History on Dec. 11 ... Other Van Gogh masterpieces to be displayed will include Self Portrait and Cypress Against a Starry Sky. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
HOMEMergers & acquisitions Sep 14, 2009
"This collection really wasn't intentional - it just kept growing." The collection now includes seascapes, a portrait of a reclining woman she bought for $10, a male portrait she calls Narcoleptic Leo, and a friend's self-portrait. "I had a portrait-painting party for my birthday one year, and my friend Tom painted a corner of his face - his chin, actually," she says. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Intriguing mix in '10 x 10 x 10' exhibition Sep 6, 2009
In his "Self Portrait" (2009) Percher shows himself reduced to folded arms - they look as marooned as lobster claws - on a meeting room table. The exhibition will make your head spin, but in a good way. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Book fest features famous authors Sep 4, 2009
On Sunday, Sept. 13, at 3 p.m. an encore presentation of Ashbury s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, a reading in six voices, will be presented. The staged reading is produced and directed by Jim Paul of the Ancram Opera House. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
At MIT, art collection is more than numbers Sep 4, 2009
Above: Vincent Van Gogh's self-portrait can be seen at the Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge. LOG IN TO COMMENT. (Boston Globe)
Exhibit demonstrates Hans Hofmann’s unparalleled legacy Aug 25, 2009
Among Hofmann s students in Provincetown were Lee Krasner, who is represented in this exhibition by a small and haunting self-portrait in pencil, and Robert De Niro (the actor s father), whose muscular and vigorous study of a seated male nude is the strongest (the most intense, concentrated, and convincing) of many similar efforts in the show. But really the key work here is by Blanche Lazzell, the modernist who moved to Provincetown in 1915 and was already an esteemed artist when she began to... (Boston Globe)
Trash to treasures: Holmen class has children making art from garbage Aug 15, 2009
Peighton, a budding artist, also added a self-portrait and picture of her cat. She s starting 4-year-old kindergarten this fall and is really excited about it, Swackhamer said. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Eyeing P-town’s place in American art Aug 5, 2009
It hangs near one of the only figurative works in the show, Lester Johnson s vigorous Self-Portrait in Studio (1969). The artist wields his brush, backed by a chorus of his signature male idols, broad-shouldered and stony-faced. (Boston Globe)
Unplugged: MF Husain Aug 2, 2009
- Husain has a six-feet-high self-portrait of himself in his house, painted as James Bond, wearing a hat with a gun and the words 007 across it (it was painted in 2007). - In his own words, he lives 10 minutes at a time. (India Times, India)
Artist opens show at Altavista Area YMCA Jul 25, 2009
She even has a self-portrait. All total, Thompson has about 20 pieces in the show. (Altivista Journal, VA)
Stretching the boundaries beyond paint on canvas Jul 24, 2009
National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2009 encouraging young people to embrace self portraiture and its expressive possibilities, now showing at the The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Yuko NarushimaJuly 24, 2009. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* [ART JOURNAL] Acts of devotion Jul 22, 2009
It is the same only more so in Peytons gamine self-portraits ... The other is a version of Delacroixs formidably hieratic self-portrait in the Louvre, all high collar and prim moustache, which Peyton crops into a sepia close-up thus removing the French painters remoteness and edging him closer to photo-real presence. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Burliss: Back to my future Jul 22, 2009
A nameless current ripples through me as we pass Williams Hall where atop the fire escape I took my oatmeal box/pinhole camera self-portrait, and Old Mill where as a college freshman I tried writing on for size. We walk past Royall Tyler Theatre, I point out the spot in front where I bought bagels (heavy on the peanut butter) on bitter Vermont mornings, and then toward the new Davis Building housing the campus bookstore. (Boxford Tri Town Transcript, MA)
Edward Steichen exhibits showcase breadth of photographer’s career Jul 19, 2009
Above: Edward Steichen s Evening Shoes by Vida Moore (left) and Self-Portrait With Photographic Paraphernalia ; below: portrait of actor Gary Cooper ... Self-Portrait With Photographic Paraphernalia, from 1929, could be a visual calling card - an advertisement for himself - with its stark lighting, forthright display of apparatus, casual pose, sense of genial merriment, and, most important, of course, its effectiveness. (Boston Globe)
David Omar White; created murals, alternative comic strip; at 82 Jul 17, 2009
At Claremont, he became a protege of the artist Henry Lee McFee, and Mr. White s self-portrait was accepted for a national competition of student work by the Addison Gallery in Andover. In 1952, he joined the merchant marine and served for a year. (Boston Globe)
Panhandle artist turns trash into treasure Jul 13, 2009
Only from a distance does the uneven array of plastic and metal begin to blend into a vivid, 8-foot-by-16-foot depiction of a self-portrait of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh with a bandaged ear and pipe ... A crowd watches Friday as an 8-foot-by-16-foot depiction of a self-portrait of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh is unveiled in Martinsburg, W.Va ... artist David Heatwole viewed up close look like an abstract mosaic, but viewed at a distance the work shows a famous self-portrait of Dutch artist... (The Herald-Mail Online)
Some day my plinth will come Jul 8, 2009
After the first few hours on Monday the self-portrait appeared to show a mosaic of polite rule-breakers, exhibit-ionists with a social conscience and slightly inept publicans. The rule-breaking began five minutes before the official inauguration of the project. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Happy days for some Jul 5, 2009
Consigned by Jane Holzer, an American collector, the small sculptural self-portrait is designed to look down from a high ledge and comes in an edition of ten (each with different clothes and hair styles). It was estimated at 180,000 to 250,000, but two covetous phone bidders drove the price up to 493,000. (The Economist)
Edible Dreams Creates Artistic Custom Cakes, Baked Goods Jul 4, 2009
This artist and baker is famous for his cartoon cakes, Statue of Liberty replica, movie- and music-themed edibles, wedding cakes, birthday cakes, self-portrait cakes, iPod design cakes, sports cakes, special occasions, 3-D cakes, traditional, unique and much more. "I want my customers to have what they want," Ed told Voices. (Voices, CT)
Restoration of Michelangelo's Vatican frescoes Jul 4, 2009
The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize - a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. Chief Vatican restorer Maurizio De Luca said Thursday that the face of a man on horseback in the artist's "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" could well be the artist, though he told AP Television News that nobody will ever know "with absolute certainty that the face is Michelangelo's.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Womb With A View Jul 4, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA)--Most of us have heard of Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait." Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and Monet's "Waterlillies." But "baby bump art?". They say pregnant women glow. (W-USA News, DC)
Painting of man on horse may be Michelangelo Jul 3, 2009
Possible self-portrait discovered during restoration of Sistine Chapel ... It contains two Michelangelo frescoes; one, "The Crucifixion of St. Peter," may contain a self-portrait ofMichelangelo ... VATICAN CITY - The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
ENCOURAGING ART: Claflin professor named S.C. Arts Commission Fellow Jun 29, 2009
"My subject matter is I reference history and historical figures and events. That's what really motivates me to make the work that I make."I use the self-portrait to explore and question relationships that construct African-American identity and subjecthood," Howard said. "As a black male in a largely white culture, I want to capture feelings of domination, subordination, oppression and suppression that are a part of my experience. At the same time, especially as it relates to issues of race, it... (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Mt. Gilead reception honors artist Jun 26, 2009
Although he hadn t planned to have a gallery in Mt. Gilead, the space at the front of his studio has turned into a gallery, hung with a self-portrait, portraits of his grandchildren and the street people of Charlotte, and up close details of his favorite landscapes. Although he admits to some culture shock after moving to Mt. Gilead and for a while frequent trips back and forth to the big city, he now is more at home, traveling to Charlotte mainly for weekly church services and visits to family... (Troy Montgomery Herald, NC)
Hilton Als: David Adjmi on household race relations. Jun 22, 2009
A black gay feminist intellectual trying to escape her past, Blanche is the least convincing of Adjmi s characters, which is surprising, given that she is Adjmi s de-facto self-portrait. Like many artists, Adjmi felt like something of an outsider in his own community. (New Yorker)
A half-century buying spree Jun 20, 2009
Naturally, there's a high proportion of Australian paintings among the society's purchases - among them Charles Conder's An Impressionist (1889), George Lambert's Holiday In Essex (1910) and Sidney Nolan's Self Portrait (1943). The society encourages the participation of younger generations in building the gallery's collection through Contempo, which raises money for contemporary works. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
PHOTO GALLERY: Linden students demonstrate the value of art in the curriculum Jun 16, 2009
5th grade Maori Tattoo Line Pattern Self-Portrait during the Linden School art show ... Sixth-grader Nicholas Hames, who has been drawing since he was three, found that adding elements of cubism to his warm and cool color self-portrait was challenging. (Malden Observer, MA)
O-W student takes top honors in art competition Jun 6, 2009
Smoak's prismacolor pencil drawing, titled "Self Portrait with Classmates," will be displayed on Capitol Hill for the next year in the corridor that connects the Capitol building with the U.S. House of Representatives offices. "The entries this year showcased the work of some of the most talented young artists from the Sixth Congressional District," Clyburn said. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
'Vida y Drama' works retain their feel of mass impact Jun 5, 2009
There's a great self-portrait by Rivera, his eyes sagging, his double chin bulging like a pocket of air trapped in a rolled up sleeping bag. And there are two superb self-portraits by J. (Boston Globe)
Self perception Jun 4, 2009
Three Connecticut-based artists have a lot to say at the Brickbottom Gallery exhibit "Commentary/Herself." Jennifer Knaus, June Bisantz, and Rachel Siporin combine self-portrait, narration, and a feminist tongue-in-cheek voice to explore contemporary social and political issues. The exhibit shows the similarities in the artists' work, despite their different processes. (Boston Globe)
Kindergarteners’ Eyes Opened to the World of Art by Dedicated Teacher Jun 2, 2009
Inspired by Mona Lisa, Van Gogh s self-portraits and Matisse s Woman in a Hat, each child painted a self-portrait. In addition to painting and drawing, the children learned to weave and made pottery from clay. (South County Chronicle, VA)
A New Norm - Michele Liebler Jun 1, 2009
William Zimmer, writing in The New York Times, characterized her work by remarking, "looking outward is something of a leitmotif." He described her tense, frontal Self-Portrait in the Studio as "compelling.". Eileen Watkins, writing in Star Ledger, called Liebler a "soulful" painter who "has a particular gift for giving inanimate objects personalities.". (AbsoluteArts.com)
Selected Portraits by Ilya Repin May 31, 2009
Like many artists, Repin painted self-portraits throughout his career, with most showing the fairly serious, guarded expression of a man who prefers observing to being observed. A self-portrait done in 1915 seems more revelatory, though, perhaps because it features Repin actively working in his studio ... In his 1915 self-portrait, Repin reaches toward the canvas with his right hand, but the left hand holds a brush. (Suite101.com)
Stair Galleries Auction House to Offer Important Works by Donray May 30, 2009
Additionally, The Prestige Financial Center, an investment services firm in Manhattan, acquired several early pieces by Donray, including a self-portrait. According to esteemed art critic and author, Donald Kuspit, the artists work reveals a verve, an energy, a dynamic surging gesture, violent movement, an overall vividness and vitality that places Donrays paintings among the most interesting of what might be called post-modern expressionist painting. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
MFA wins legal claim to valuable painting May 30, 2009
It is a self-portrait with Alma Mahler (wife of the composer Gustav Mahler), with whom the artist had an affair. In recent years, other Kokoschka works have sold at auction for as much as $1 million. (Boston Globe)
Filmmaker's Antitrust Suit Against Andy Warhol Foundation to Go Forward May 30, 2009
In 1989 Simon-Whelan purchased a relatively little-known Warhol self-portrait for $150,000. A few years ago, he decided to sell his painting, but there was a snag: An art authentication board established by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts twice declared the self-portrait a fake, even though the painting had previously been authenticated by the foundation itself ... "Simon-Whelan has brought this class action antitrust suit in order to bludgeon a charitable organization into... (Law.com)
Warhol collector's monopoly suit gets green light May 29, 2009
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LEGO Artist Nathan Sawaya May 26, 2009
Another piece in the exhibit is Sawaya's self-portrait. Rain features a large blue raindrop and a large black raindiop on a white background in a brown frame made from LEGO bricks. (Suite101.com)
Renzo Piano adds onto Art Institute of Chicago May 26, 2009
Piano has provided elegantly proportioned galleries to accommodate special exhibitions and canonical gems of the AIC's modern and contemporary collection, which include Willem de Kooning's "Excavation" (1950), Henri Matisse's "Bathers by a River" (1909-17), a cluster of sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and a 1937 self-portrait by Max Beckmann. The special-exhibition galleries open bracingly with the one-venue show "Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works, 2000-2007" (through Sept. 13). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
British Artist John William Godward May 24, 2009
The male figure in Godward s 1889 is perhaps a self-portrait, however, and one of the few personal traces of Godward s quietly intense life. Sources. (Suite101.com)
• Kids can learn from historic artists at CSI May 22, 2009
They will make five different projects, including a Matisse-style pencil holder, a Mondrian wall hanging, a Picasso-style pitcher, an abstract Kandinsky plate and your very own Kahlo-style self portrait. This class will be held 9-11 a.m. Monday through Friday June 8-12 at Hands On, 147 Shoshone St N, Downtown Twin Falls. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Van Gogh's landscapes finally get their due May 20, 2009
A self-portrait showing him with the bandaged head is reproduced in the exhibition catalog. Attesting to his relapse into depression is the last of 20 Arles pictures, "Landscape Under Stormy Sky," with ominously threatening clouds. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Art judge takes novel approach May 17, 2009
Ward Hulbert's photograph, "Alex's Boat," is a poignant look at the Combs estate in Halibut Cove, with Alex's self-portrait seen in the background. It's not only a warm reminder of the artist but a comment on our shared temporal nature. (Anchorage Daily News)
Phillips Collection Annual Gala Unites Washington's Notables in Support of Arts Education May 17, 2009
It also includes landscapes, a rare self-portrait, and a selection of etchings on paper that reveal his exceptional mastery of the medium. ABOUT THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION. (PR Newswire)
New Orleans' 'Katrina Generation' struggles with drugs and depression May 14, 2009
New Orleans - Months before her death, 16-year-old Madeleine Prevost was hard at work on a high school art project, a self-portrait she did not share because it, like the subject, was a work in progress. The painting now hangs in her mother's New Orleans home, and in some ways it is a portrait of more than just a single girl. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Year in review May 11, 2009
Drawings, paintings (self-portrait by Noah Gonci of the Morse School, below), photos, digital, and mixed-media masterpieces by students in grades K-12 will be on view in the upper and lower galleries of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center all month. The joint venture between the latter and the Cambridge Public Schools has been around for more than 20 years, and you can be a part of the celebration on May 21 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at a gallery reception. (Boston Globe)
America: Losing its identity, or in transition? May 6, 2009
America is a self-portrait of freedom that expands beyond the spectrum of races, colors and religions. Friends of mine ask me if we are losing our American Identity. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Top Bay artists often underappreciated in life May 5, 2009
His self-portrait chronicle of his losing struggle with cancer stands as the most pitiless self-reflection in American art. No label - neither sculptor, painter, conceptual artist nor architect - adequately fits David Ireland (b. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Self-constructive tendencies May 2, 2009
One of the images in the show, "7/16," which won the top award at the 2006 "Alaska Positive" photo exhibition organized by the museum, is a self-portrait that shows Mehner's unusual beard, half dark and half light due to a birthmark, and, he says, a visual representation of his mixed heritage. "Blood Quantum," another work on display, was inspired by Mehner's Bureau of Indian Affairs ID card. (Juneau Empire)
