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 ...

A self portrait by Zaya Johnson, a seventh grader at Chute Middle School, is touring the state and is expected to visit ...

The Nirvana rocker, who died in April 1994, wrote on the drawing, "I don't know how to play and I don't give a hoot!" Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written ...

For an opening night reception of self-portraits displayed at the Mead Art Museum gallery, Wildwood School’s first-grade artists become the center of attention, having the opportunity to talk about ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

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 ...

In the living room of her Hyde Park apartment, University of Chicago graduate student Yuqing Zhu holds up Precession, her latest artwork, next to a print by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. Both ...

For artists who work with the figurative and draw from live models, quarantining can offer a new set of challenges. But figurative-based artist John MacConnell (MFA 2009 Illustration as Visual Essay) ...

Nine years after the death of Lucian Freud, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is providing a new, intimate look into the development of the figurative painter’s artistic expression. Freud is one of the ...

“Every painting is a self-portrait,” the late Boston artist Ralph Hamilton used to say. But some paintings — and drawings and photographs — really are portraits of the artist who made them. Boston’s ...