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Thursday, September 4, 2014

The top 10 self-portraits in art

From an anxious Lucian Freud to an enigmatic Rembrandt and a noirish Cindy Sherman, these self-portraits take the selfie to a new artistic level The top 10 codpieces in art The top 10 ancient Greek artworksHockney is ruthless in his self-portraits; he never poses or tries to look good. What he does is to record the act of self-portraiture the fact of a painter looking in a mirror and trying to record what he sees and give it a deliberately awkward material truth. In doing so, he paints the ideal of honest observation. Continue reading...


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