Old masters portraits

Long before iPhones, Snapchat filters, Kim Kardashian, and Cindy Sherman, painters like Rembrandt were painstakingly accepting their worst angles and inventing their best, all in pursuit of the art of the selfie. It's a torch that Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, and Marina Abramovic have all nobly helped carry throughout the centuries, rendering their own likenesses in everything from pencil to Polaroid film to oil paint. "Facing the World," up now at the Scottish National Portrait…

I found this great image online. you could just sense the paints thickness, he preached to let the paint retain the tracks of the brush. i have a little suspicion that as much as he squinted he would also blurred his vision with eyes wide open in order to eliminate the number of planes and detail, in order to see color mass and color variations. This is why i think he was among the greatest to capture flesh tones because he then was more able to see color by itself instead of color as the…

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This is my new work, Rembrandt’s self portrait, and I like it very much.

William J. Forsyth (American, 1854–1935), Study Head (Old Woman) (recto), study head, old man (verso), about 1883-1884, oil on canvas, 20-1/4 x 16-3/8 in. (canvas); 27-5/8 x 23-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. (framed). Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Gift of Mrs. Phyllisann Hibben Courtis in memory of her mother, Louise Douglas Hibben, 1992.379.