The Importance Of Self-Portrait In Art

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So I need to take a selfie, which is very rare to me. To be honest, I never had the confidence to do it because it involves with my face. Despite that, I still need to make the portrait. Taking a leap of faith, I started trying to take my own picture – selfie, with my laptop web camera before tracing it into my canvas. My fourth artwork also revolves around self-portrait, only this time I used Adobe Photoshop instead. The process was pretty similar, taking a good selfie for the subject and turn it into an artwork. After making two self-portraits, I started to wonder how famous artists really do self-portrait, do they look into the mirror and draw themselves or just simply take picture and draw from it? This made me question myself, how is artist’s self-portrait similar with selfie? Why artists do self-portrait and why do people selfie? Self-portrait, is when someone draw or illustrate oneself, typically from head to the neck or shoulder. Self-portraiture has had been a genre of art since Ancient Egypt. A self-portrait usually takes time to be completed; it is a quiet study of oneself over the period of weeks, months, and possibly years. Various self-portraits have been illustrated since then from different artists, with different media and different motives. Vincent Van Gogh for example, from 1886 to 1889, had been painting over 30 self-portraits. He actually did self-portrait for the first time because he had no money to pay models posing for his portraits. Besides Van