Symbolic Portraits

Meaningful representations

What is a Portrait?

• A visual representation of a person• Obama portrait by Shepard Fairey, 2008

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa portrait, 1503-06

Vincent Van Gogh, self-portrait, 1889

Vincent Van Gogh, Chair, 1888

Vincent Van Gogh, A Pair of Shoes

Pablo Picasso, self-portrait, 1972

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Water portrait, 1566

Keith Haring, self-portrait

Frida Kahlo, self-portrait

Andy Warhol, Turquoise Marilyn portrait, 1962

Andy Warhol, self-portrait, 1986

Kerry James Marshall, The Portrait of the Artist as his Former Self, 1980

Banksy, self-portrait

Barry McGee, self-portrait, 2001

symbolic self-portrait

symbolic self-portrait

symbolic self-portrait

symbolic self-portrait

symbolic self-portrait

symbolic self-portrait