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The self portrait is the ultimate expression of the modernist impulse in art, illuminating the inner world of the artist through self examination. "self·ish" - our first show, is an attempt to compare facets of contemporary self portraiture from the United States, with those of Eastern Europe, currently an area of great political, cultural and economic metamorphosis. The history of self portraiture as a significant subject for artists began in the premodern. During the Renaissance, Albrecht Dhrer was among the first artists to internally reflect and reveal himself through self portraiture. Later, in the Baroque period, Rembrandt brought the form to new heights through his lifelong series of self portraits, which are seen as meditations on aging, grief, life and death. In the modern era, artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo communicated their emotional and physical agonies through painting themselves; conversely, Andy Warhol used portraits and self portraits as a kind of anti-reflective riff on contemporary shallowness and plastic celebrity. Artists of today carry on these traditions in constantly evolving ways, which this show explores. |
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Self·ish
