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Self Portraits: Styles &
Artist Examples
Self portrait by Egon Schiele, 1913
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Realistic Self-Portraits
Courbet, 1850
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Realistic Self-Portraits
Raphael, 1506 Leonardo da Vinci, 1512
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Realistic Self-Portraits
Jan van Eyck, 1433 Durer, 1500
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Realistic Self-Portraits
Chuck Close • American painter, born in 1940 • Known for
large-scale, photorealist style • Close suffers from prosopagnosia
– cannot recognize faces • Paralyzed from neck down after seizure
in 1988
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Impressionist Self-Portraits
Van Gogh, 1889 Chuck Close, 2009
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Impressionist Self-Portraits
Mary Cassatt, 1880
Matisse, 1906
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Audrey Anastasi,
Lupo, 2005
Impressionist Self-Portraits
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Surrealist Self-Portraits
"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the
subject I know best.”
• Mexican painter, born in 1907 • Themes include isolation,
pain, emotional struggle, and female identity
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Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta Construction Chart #2, 1975
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Beverly McIver, Can You Hear My Silent
Scream?, 2004
Expressionist Self-Portraits
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Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1976
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Sophie Matisse, Gaia, 2011
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Realism: grid-system; Da Vinci, Raphael, Jan van Eyck, Durer
Chuck Close: can’t recognize faces (prosopagnosia); works in large
scale; partially paralyzed Impressionism: looser interpretations;
simplified shape, line, color; color to create mood; show brush
strokes and paint Frida Kahlo: themes: emotion, dreams, pain,
depression, female identity, surrealist Surrealism: imaginative,
fantasy, altered reality, dream-like, realism combined with
unexpected or unusual things Expressionism: movement, messy,
energy, action, experimental
Be prepared to use your notes as we review these words and
artists:
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Answer at least 5 of these questions as you plan and sketch:
What view of your face will you show? (front, profile) Will you
show your whole face or cover part of it? What might you cover it
with? Will your eyes look at the viewer or away? Will your eyes be
open or closed? What will you be wearing? What environment will you
be in? (real, imagined, inside, outside) Will you show some other
part of your body instead of your face? (hands, feet) Will anyone
or anything else be in the artwork with you? What kind of mood do
you want to create? What color scheme would you like to use? Which
style will you work in? (Realistic, Impressionist, Surrealist,
Expressionist) What mix of materials do you want to use?
