SELF-PORTRAITS

Brigidine Library

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Year 11 Art
Self Portrait

Search Terms:

Search under these particular headings in the Alice catalogue, in the indexes/contents pages of books,
on databases and on the Web.

Portraits (don’t use ‘self-portraits’	Art - History	Names of individual artists eg Kahlo, Frida
Human figure in art

While you are searching the Alice database, note that there are web sites catalogued in there,
and you can go directly to them by clicking on the green globe icon which will appear on the right of the screen.

Guide to compiling a Bibliography

Shelf Locations:

Dewey Number Topic

700.92 Artists

701 Art appreciation

709 Art history (search book indexes for topics)

750 Painting and paintings

757 Human figure (portraits can be included here)

759 History of painting

Online Databases:

Go to Brigidine’s Online Databases page, and search the
subscription databases located there (Electric Library,
Encyclopaedia of Britiannica

Recommended Web Search Tools:

Go to Brigidine’s Recommended Web Search Tools page and use a Search Engine like Google,
but preferably try the Subject Directories like Yahoo, Lycos and others.
Subject Directories are written by experts, not picked up by computers using certain keywords,
so the information there is more likely to be reputable and authoritative.

Internet Sites:

Listed artists

Allen	Cobley	Durer	Kahlo	Nolan	Schiele
Bacon	Cossington Smith	Escher	Lautrec	Parr	Van Gogh
Beckman	Davida	Gauguin	Magrite	Picasso	Vigee Brun
Bennett	Da Vinci	Hanrahan	Matisse	Preston	Whiteley
Cezanne	Dali	Hester	Moffatt	Rembrandt
Chagall	Dine	Hockney	Munch	Robinson
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GENERAL: ABOUT SELF PORTRAITS AND HOW TO MAKE A SELF PORTRAIT

What is a portrait and quotes about portraits

Self-Portraits
as self study
as fantasy
as projection

Headspace Project. National Portrait Gallery of Australia

National Portrait Gallery

Making a self portrait
Self Portrait UK

Contains relevant information about the elements of self-portraits

Self Portraits. Humanities Web
”There scarcely lives or breaths an artist who hasn't, at one time
or another, tried his hand at painting a self-portrait”
Scroll down to more links relevant to self portraits

Self Portraits. Art Stories
There's always a narrative" says Stewart. "It's something that propels the work

Portrait/Self-Portrait: Prints and Drawings from the
Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collections
An explanation of a self portrait
”Traditionally, portraits and self-portraits captured details of the persona
l and emotional life of the subject and often showed people in settings that revealed the sitters vocation and status”.

The Artists self portrait in Australia.
To Look Within – self portraits in Australia

GENERAL- SELF PORTRAITS

Famous Artists’ Self-Portraits

ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary – Self-Portraits

Web Gallery of Art
Search for ‘self-portrait’ in the text search box.
Disregard those which are only ‘portraits’.

National Gallery of Art U.S.A.
go to subject search and choose “portrait”, on the next screen choose “self”

Who am I? Self Portraits in Art and Writing
Includes self portrait lessons online and guided assistance to students.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
type in self portrait in the search box

Digital Artists’ Self-Portrait Gallery

Artists explain their own self-portrait

IMAGES

http://images.google.com

http://images.altavista.com
type in portrait or self-portrait or an artist that you like and portrait.

Barewalls Self-Portraits
Search using the term self-portraits
Images only

GENERAL ART DATABASES:

Art Cyclopedia

Search by “self portrait” in “Artworks title” box

Art Cyclopedia
Search by artist’s name

Artchive

AtLex Visual Arts Dictionary
to help you understanding some technical terms

About.com Artists’ Dictionary/Biography
good for biographical information

SPECIFIC ARTISTS:

Sydney Nolan

Sydney Nolan self-portraits. Me myself and I. An essay
http://www.portrait.gov.au/content/learning/headspace/memyselfandi.htm

Tracey Moffatt

http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/moffatt/project

Self Portrait in focus
The Headspace project from The National Art Gallery of Australia.
An essay on self portraiture focusing on Tracey Moffat

“Self-portraiture is essentially a self-reflexive process, used by artists to both define and portray themselves”.

Davida Allen

Art Galleries Schubert

http://www.art-galleries-schubert.com.au/www/artist_info/Davida_Allen.htm

Eva Breuer Art Dealer

http://www.evabreuerartdealer.com.au/allen_bio.html

Francis Bacon

ArtCyclopedia

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bacon_francis.html

Francis Bacon: An Extraordinary 20^th Century British Painter

http://www.geocities.com/pantherprousa/bacon/about_bacon02.html

Max Beckman

Max Beckman biography

http://humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=b&ID=385

Artchive’s Review of Beckman’s ‘Self-Portrait With Horn’

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/beckmann/horn.jpg.html

http://artwork.barewalls.com/product/artwork.exe?ITEMID=13591

The second link has the portrait.

Max Beckman

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.artdreamguide.com%2fadg%2f_arti%2f_b%2f_beckm%2farti.htm&langpair=it%7Cen&hl=en

Gordon Bennett

Art Gallery Shubert
http://www.wga.hu/index1.html

Bennett puts on a brave face
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/27/1082831550074.html?from=storyrhs

Prints of a man
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/prints-of-a-man/2005/06/30/1119724751381.html

Cezanne

Artchive’s Review of Cezanne’s Self-Portraits

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cezanne_self.html

Artchive’s Review of Cezanne’s ‘Self-Portrait With Palette’

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cezanne/self_2_text.jpg.html

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall biography 1887-1985
http://www.artelino.com/articles/marc_chagall.asp

Marc Chagall (Mark Zakharovich Shagal)
(1887 - 1985)

http://www.theartgallery.com.au/artEducation/greatartists/chagall/about

Marc Chagall
http://www.fantasyarts.net/Marc_Chagall.htm

Marc Chagall
His work treats subjects in a vein of humor and fantasy that draws deeply on the resources of the unconscious
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Chagal.html

Marc Biography. Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_28.html

Chuck Close

Artcyclopedia – Chuck Close

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/close_chuck.html

AbsoluteArts.com – Chuck Close

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2000/12/30/27885.html

How We Make Sense of What We See – Review of Chuck Close’s Work

http://exn.ca/Stories/1999/09/27/52.asp

*David H. Cobley

David H. Cobley – Self-Portraits

An artist discussing why he likes to paint self-portraits

http://www.davidcobley.co.uk/selfportraits.htm

Grace Cossington Smith

Portrait of a modernist. An essay.
http://www.portrait.gov.au/content/gallery/portmnth/mar03/modernist.html

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1894)
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/cossingtonsmith

Grace Cossington Smith – self portrait
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/cossingtonsmith/Detail.cfm?IRN=130933&ViewID=2

M.C. Escher

M.C. Escher the official website
http://www.mcescher.com

M.C. Escher
the creator of instantly recognizable, eerily precise renderings of infinity and logical absurdities
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=46

M.C. Escher self portrait
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggescher/ggescher-53815.0.html

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali biography
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_34.html

Salvador Dali biography 1904-1989
By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous
- the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams
http://www.artelino.com/articles/salvador_dali.asp

Salvador Dali
http://www.fantasyarts.net/Salvador_Dali.htm

Salvador Dali Quotations
http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=q&ID=127

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci – Self-Portraits

http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/self.html

ArtCyclopedia – Leonardo Da Vinci

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/leonardo_da_vinci.html

Jim Dine

Jim Dine walking memory 1959-1969
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/dine/dine_bottom2.html

Jim Dine. Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dine

Jim Dine Pop Art
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~toms/PopArt/Biographies/dine.html

Albrecht Durer

The Self-Portraits of Albrecht Durer

http://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/farberas/arth/ARTH200/artist/durer_intro.html

Web Museum - Albrecht Durer’s Self-Portraits

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/self/

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin biography

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/r/rembran/biograph.html

Paul Gauguin
http://www.fantasyarts.net/Gauguin.htm

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
http://cgfa.dotsrc.org/gauguin/gauguin_bio.htm

Paul Gauguin self portrait with portrait of Bernard
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/collection/catalog/vgmpainting.asp?ARTID=127&LANGID=0&SEL=0&PERIOD=-1&SORT=010

Paul Gauguin biography

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_50.html

Gauguin, (Eugene Henry) Paul
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gauguin

Eugene Henry Paul Gauguin. Quotations
http://humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=q&ID=21

Barbara Hanrahan ******

Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery – Barbara Hanrahan

http://www.swanhill.vic.gov.au/gallery/collection/hanrahan.html

Hanrahan, Barbara 1939-19991
NW Australian Women biography

http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0991b.htm

Barbara Hanrahan, Artist, printmaker and writer
http://www.history.sa.gov.au/history/sa_history/prominent_people/hanrahan.htm

Joy Hester ******* note Aust v World

Joy Hester a subjective approach
http://www.portal.com.au/James/bindi/MainIndex.html

Eva Breuer Art Dealer – Joy Hester

http://www.evabreuerartdealer.com.au/hester_bio.html

The art of Joy Hester
http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/art_profiles/article_929.asp

Joy Hester

Biographical information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Hester

Joy Hester and Friends
http://www.nga.gov.au/press/Hester.htm

David Hockney

David Hockney
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hockney.html

David Hockney
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney

David Hockney model with unfinished self portrait
http://www.masterworksartgallery.com/David-Hockney/David-Hockney-Model-with-Unfinished-Self-Portrait.html

David Hockney born 1937}
http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/artnews/hockney.htm

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo self-portraits. Images only
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/jcummings/ph56frida.html

Frida by Kahlo: A Story in Self-Portraits

http://www.fbuch.com/fridaby.htm

The World of Frida Kahlo

http://members.aol.com/fridanet/kahlo.htm

Frida Kahlo Contemporary Thoughts

http://www.fridakahlo.it/

Toulouse Lautrec

Biography of Henri Toulouse Lautrec, 1864-1901
http://www.lautrec.info/biography.html

Toulouse Lautrec biography
http://www.artelino.com/articles/toulouse_lautrec.asp

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/Lautrec/Lautrec.shtml

Toulouse Lautrec, Henri
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/toulouse-lautrec/Z

Renee Magritte

Renee Magritte : Biography
http://www.magritte.com/2.cfm

Biography of Renee Magritte
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=22

Biography. Renee Magritte
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_92.html

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch : the frieze of life
PDF file on his life and his works. Page 6 has information about his self portraits
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/munch/ed_resource.html

Edvard Munch biography
http://www.edvardmunch.info/biography.asp

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Father of Expressionism
http://www.mnc.net/norway/munch.htm