Self Portrait

 I am sitting outside where it is a perfectly cool blue-sky sunny sweater day. I've just returned from a walk that included a tall americano while listening to two of my favorite podcasts series.

In my school email, the Art of the Day website was Self-Portrait by Edvard Munch. You know one of his works, The Scream. Taking pictures of oneself is as natural to people today as breathing, but this is a recent - in history - phenom. A self portrait might help us get to "know" an artist as we look at where he has placed himself and what he chooses to put in the painting. Or not, it is just interesting to look at the work's detail.

Self Portrait

Edvard Munch

c. 1943

 

 I am NOT a fan of pictures with me in it, but I often choose to take many trips by myself, and I want to remember special places. With my phone I can take reverse pictures of myself and include the site I am visiting....it reminds me of the moment BUT I am not the focus.

See my head? This was taken while on my New York City vacation last summer as I was about to go in to see a Broadway play, One Man, Two Guv'nors.  The play was so funny that we, the audience, were gasping for air and wiping tears throughout the two hours. Good times!

Why don't you post a favorite self portrait on YOUR blog and write about it?
If you do, please let me know via email or a comment below.

Happy vacationing! Get outside!!!!