A brief slide show introducing some artists connected to our first project and what to do to start your piece!

1. Identity & Self-Portraits
IB Visual Arts 1
Project 1

2. A young Rembrandt,
c. 1628, when he was 22.
Partly an exercise
in chiaroscuro.
Rijksmuseum

3. Rembrandt. Oil on Beech Panel.
Self-portrait wearing a white
feathered bonnet, 1635, Buckland
Abbey, Devon.

4. Self Portrait at the age of 63 -
Dated 1669, the year he died,
though he looks much older in
other portraits. National Gallery,
London

5. Ai Weiwei Dropping a Han-Dynasty Urn 1995
Triptych, C-prints, each 150 x 166 cm © Ai Weiwei

6. Egon Schiele 1912
Self Portrait with his head down
Oil on panel
42.2 x 33.7cm

7. Self Portrait, Grimacing
1910
55.8 x 36.7
Pencil, charcoal,
brush and gouach on paper
Albertina, Vienna

8. I shall endure for art
and for the happiness of my lover.
Self-portrait of Schiele in jail, 1912
47.9 x 31.9 cm
Brush and watercolor on japan paper

9. Egon Schiele 1915
Self-Portrait with Striped Sleeves
Drawing
1915
49 x 31..5 cm

10. Tomoko Sawada
Recruit/Navy, 2006
One hundred
chromogenic prints
hinged to board
27 3/8 × 23 1/2 in
69.5 × 59.7 cm

12. Some other artists to consider---
• Cindy Sherman
• Anselm Feurerbach
• Florine Stettheimer
• Ernst Ludwic Kirchener
• Marina Abramovic
• Francis Bacon
• Kiki Smith
• Henri Matisse
• Max Beckmann
• Palma Vecchio
• Pablo Picasso
• Gustave Courbet

13. And the list goes on….
• Hopefully this gives you a start, sparking some ideas of how you
might want to approach this project, what angles of identity and
personal cultural experience you want to address through your self
portrait.
• Begin to brainstorm and plan out your ideas, and we’ll discuss them
together in class.
• If there is a certain artist or group of artists that we looked at that you
are particularly interested in, take the time to research that further,
and write about it in your workbook!