So I hit the web to see what I could find about self portraits.
Before I started snapping away at er myself, well I wanted to understand where it all began....
Ok, so a self portrait is what it says it is...a portrait of oneself. This could be in many forms ie painting, photography, solo portrait or a portrait of oneself within a group of other people.
In the history of art, one particular artist stood out when it came to self portraits and they went by the name of Albrecht Durer.
He was a prolific self portraitist.
The earliest is a silverpoint drawing created when he was thirteen years old
He portrayed himself more often than any artist before him, producing at least twelve images.
It appears that Durer then set a trend, with other well known artists following suit such as Rembrandt and Van Gogh
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| Rembrandt 1628 |
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| Van Gogh |
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