My favorite art is self portrait art
My fascination with self portraits actually began with van Gogh art. I don’t know if you have ever seen the van Gogh self portrait – it is not one of his most glamorous the works. Starry Night is much better known, as are several of the other ones, but nonetheless it is a masterpiece of self portrait arts. The self portrait van Gogh drew is initially unremarkable. It does not have the same mad distortion of his landscapes. Nevertheless, once you begin to look closer at the self portrait art, you can see the pathos and misery that the artist experienced. When I looked at his self portrait art, I finally realized that Starry Night was not a work of intoxicating beauty, but one of unbridled terror and anxiety. This is what looking into his eyes through his eyes showed me.
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Last modified July 18, 2007Author 1343 > has blogged 279 times
