The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam has a new exhibition that I enjoyed very much. It is called
In the picture and it shows portraits of artists, selfportraits most of them, but sometimes portraits painted by their friends.
Self-portraits were easy to make if you had no money for a model, that was why Vincent van Gogh made a lot of selfportraits, but he also studied his face and several expressions this was. And of course a (self)portrait also gave the artist the opportunity to show what was important to them and what being an artist meant.
I especially liked these portraits of femals artists.
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| Louise Jane Jopling by Sir John Everett Millais (1879) |
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| Elin Danielson-Gambogi, selfportrait, 1900 |
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| Berthe Morisot, selfportrait (1885) |
I love that Millais, and of course, Berthe Morisot's work.
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I loved all of them and I am so glad I've got the catalogue of this exchibition, with all the portraits in it.
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