What I mean to suggest here is that sinistrality was encoded as a sign of self-portraiture itself. |
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This unit explores issues of self and identity through the observation and analysis of self-portraiture. |
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Look especially at the histories of self-portraiture and photographic portraiture. |
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It is no wonder then that portraiture and self-portraiture have long been favourite genres for both artists and audiences alike. |
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Is there always an element of self-portraiture? |
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Critics stress that the self-portraiture of Chagall reveals the duality in every human being, but perhaps this duality refers more to contradictions sensed by the artist in presence of the crucified Christ. |
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They are a form of artistic practice, with an art historical context and correlatives in documentary production, self-portraiture, and performance. |
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Each painting creates its own world, abundant with richly coloured organic forms, many of which reference his on-going investigation of the theme of self-portraiture. |
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Do you have a preferred medium for self-portraiture? |
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Elsewhere in the exhibition, artists engage in self-representation, although the act of self-portraiture is deferred as their features are substituted by other forms. |
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By representing herself as a painter Lilias Newton places herself within a tradition of self-portraiture that goes back to the Renaissance, while simultaneously challenging the traditional concept of the artist as male. |
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Portraiture, and self-portraiture, came naturally to the surrealists. |
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Her art practice, focused almost exclusively on photographic self-portraiture, combines real subjects with fictional situations in order to question contemporary social dynamics. |
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And here is where self-portraiture enters in. |
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Self-portraiture is particularly diabolic. |
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Self-portraiture too rarely achieves this kind of restless urgency. |
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