1. A Reflection of Infinite Possibilities compiled by PEK March 2009
SELF-PORTRAITS
A Reflection of Infinite Possibilities
compiled by PEK
March 2009

2. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1653 Italian)
Women Artists Before 20th Century
Marie-Denise Villers
( 1774 – 1821 French)
Marie Bashkirtseff (1858 – 1884 Russian)
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1653 Italian)
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, circa Note the pulled-up sleeve on the arm holding the brush.
Young Woman Drawing, 1801, thought to be her self-portrait, and her most famous and finest painting.
Self-portrait with a Palette, 1880 was a Russian born artist who died at twenty-five. A large number of Bashkirtseff's works were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II

3. Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be colour.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

4. A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Paul Klee (1879 – 1940 Swiss)
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Lost in Thought, 1917

5. Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954 Mexican)
"I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best."
1925 Bus Accident

6. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973 Spanish)
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
1901
Yo Picasso
1972 Facing Death
1907 Rose to African Period

7. Joan Miro ( Spanish)
“My work is intended as a poem translated into music by a painter.”

8. mirror; glass mirrors became available in Europe in the 15th century
mirror; glass mirrors became available in Europe in the 15th century. The first mirrors used were convex, introducing deformations that the artist sometimes preserved. A painting by Parmigianino in 1524 Self-portrait in a mirror, demonstrates the phenomenon.
Diego Velazquez, Lax Meninas, 1656 (English: The Maids of Honour)

9. Triple Self-Portraits
Johannes Gumpp, 1646
Norman Rockwell, 1960
Triple Self-Portraits