This post is in response to The Homospatial Process in Creativity By Albert Rothenberg, M.D. Rembrandt van Rijn produced the largest number of self-portraits of any major painter in history. Although ...

Allan Rubin, “Frida & Diego” (2016), oil on metal cans, 17″ h (all images courtesy the artist) NARROWSBURG, New York — Most every artist must establish, to some degree, their relationship to the art ...

Graeme Yule / National Galleries of Scotland When Vincent Van Gogh was low on money he took to painting on both sides of the canvas, but over the years some of his reverse side paintings were covered ...

Andy Warhol fact portrait in “Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers” (all images by James Gulliver Hancock, courtesy Chronicle Books) Did you know that the Chupa Chups lollipop logo was designed by ...

A never-before-seen self-portrait by Norman Cornish, the celebrated 20th-century painter from northern England, has been discovered on the back of one of his framed works. Cornish, known for his ...

"This important publication accompanies the first ever exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits across his entire career. The exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery and accompanying ...

For some artists, the self-portrait can become an obsession. Consider Renaissance master Albrecht Durer and the many times that he captured his own likeness, perhaps in an attempt to gauge the aging ...

Inspired by Self Portrait at the Age of About Forty (c.1772), the only known portrait in which Wright shows himself as an artist, Life on Paper assembles more than 70 of Wright’s largely overlooked ...

At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), there's a captivating self-portrait of the artist Joan Brown hugging Donald, her resplendent tabby cat. "She is holding onto Donald so tightly," ...

The assignment: create a self-portrait. Art history is full of self-portraits. The great masters through the ages — Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Albrecht Durer, Jan Van Eyck, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida ...