![]() ![]() One of the first self-portraits were created with photography and filters. The surviving self-portraits, maybe they are simply a necessity to reinvent myself. I think I painted four or five self-portraits, some of them I also think I threw it away, because it bothered me, I didn’t recognize myself in it or maybe I recognized myself too much. There is almost an astonishment in confronting myself with the mirror, I almost never see the two parts adhere.įor this reason I never recognize myself in a self-portrait. ![]() Maybe because I am not able to make a synthesis between the inner and the outer self, always finding a deep gap between the image I see reflected in the mirror or in photography and what I perceive of myself inside. The internal image I have of myself does not necessarily coincide with the external one. The psychological study of myself passes through the channels of expression and I don’t like to project who I am and what I do on a canvas as a self-portrait or by photographing myself. So my person only counts for that which produces and creates. I use words for that, and in this specific case I don’t talk about me directly but I use poetry to communicate thoughts and moods.įrom my point of view, I think I’m more interesting as a medium to get the message across. I belong to that category of artists who don’t like to retract oneself. Painting yourself as the unique subject of the painting, inserting yourself in your own image in a context as a visitor, painting yourself as a saint, as a famous person, painting yourself inside paintings hanging in architectural backgrounds and so on: self-portrait is always an affirmation of yourself, whatever form you choose to use.ĭürer has painted himself countless times, as has Van Gogh or Ligabue, but also Kahlo, while Klimt has never had any interest in making a self-portrait. Self-portrait can be defined as a collage of psychology, painting technique, self-assertion, even self-motivating. Self-portrait has also had different meanings in history, for example in a historical period like the Renaissance, self-portrait determined the affirmation in the world of one’s own talent, while in the contemporary world there has been a greater search for introspection and dialogue with one’s own image often not perceived outside as inside oneself. Self-portrait is the description, almost a collage, of one’s own physical and moral qualities, of one’s own defects, of one’s own merits, both in pictorial and literary form.īut is it so simple to describe what a self-portrait is?ĭescribing one’s own physical form in a self-portrait is an enormous, almost impossible task in itself.īecause it is a portrait of oneself filtered by what the artist imagines of oneself, and it is not necessarily a portrait that describes the here and now, the immediate presence of the artist, but it can for example be a self-portrait based on a not recent photo. ![]()
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