The selfie is a smartphone-produced version of the self-portrait, which has been a staple of art and photography history since artists first began seeing examining their own images in the mirror. In ...

Exactly one year after he died, a self-portrait of artist Jack Vettriano will go on display at the National Galleries in ...

"120 illustrations, 109 in color." In this broad cultural survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the ...

For maybe 600 years, artists have used their own reflections to engage with questions of identity and mortality, image and perception. So you could also look at the selfie as an extension of the rich ...

Another day in the drawing process focuses on refining the lips in a self portrait. Careful shading, blending, and small adjustments help bring realism and expression to the artwork as the portrait ...

Despite the prevalence of self-referential and autobiographical elements in his art, Jean-Michel Basquiat rarely identified his paintings as explicit representations of himself. Now, one of the artist ...

This time lapse captures the moment a self portrait drawing comes to life. Through careful shading and detail, the artwork quickly transforms from simple lines into a realistic portrait. #DrawingProce ...

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 ...

One of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s few self-portraits—and one that hasn’t been seen in more than 20 years—is being offered as the star lot in November at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale in New York for ...