
Self-Portrait as Genre: Why Artists Have Always Painted Themselves
Dürer painted himself as Christ. Rembrandt painted himself 40 times. Cindy Sherman photographed herself as 70 characters. Discover why artists have always painted themselves.
5 articles tagged with "Cindy Sherman"

Dürer painted himself as Christ. Rembrandt painted himself 40 times. Cindy Sherman photographed herself as 70 characters. Discover why artists have always painted themselves.

The Guerrilla Girls wore gorilla masks and called out museum sexism. Discover how feminist art theory went from the Dinner Party to institutional critique, and what changed.

Postmodernism said nothing is original, just references to references. Discover how Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons turned appropriation into art, and why it matters.

David Salle layered incompatible images on the same canvas and called it painting. Discover how the American Neo-Expressionist became the defining figure of postmodern figurative art.

Explore Cindy Sherman's radical reinvention of the self-portrait through film stills, history portraits, and fashion photography. Discover how she uses her own body to examine identity, representation, and the constructed nature of femininity across five decades of work.
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