Self Portrait

Such subjects as the mask and the grotesque, social critique, the self-portrait, the identification with Christ, the masses, satire and death have after all lost none of their relevance in the contemporary visual art. ❋ Edward Goldman (2011)

And the "bathroom self-portrait photo takers"... we all know it's been downhill for them in the time since posing as fraternal twins in the mirror. ❋ Morris W. O (2011)

I asked the same question of my daughter when she asked me which crayon color to use for a self-portrait. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As it happens, Hoyle has a self-portrait in The Black Cloud: the maverick, "unstable" Chris Kingsley. ❋ Nicholas Lezard (2010)

Ask "bathroom self-portrait photo takers," resigning GOP Congressman Christopher Lee and Bishop Eddie Long. ❋ Morris W. O'Kelly (2011)

The self-portrait of a young Picasso and the almost 2000-year-old Fayum mummy portrait of an equally young man exhibited next to it are striking in the way they speak to each other, as if they are long lost relatives. ❋ Edward Goldman (2011)

But the embattled Jackie comes closest to a self-portrait, he adds. ❋ Julia M. Klein (2011)

In fact, heading into the first gallery, you encounter the penetrating gaze of Siqueiros's left eye in his 1956 self-portrait "Me by Me." ❋ Arnie Cooper (2010)

I'm psychologically in costume when I work, and what I produce is a self-portrait from inside someone else's skin. ❋ Peter Conrad (2010)

Hearing them, Paige came down from her room upstairs and joined them in the hall by the large Francis Bacon self-portrait. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

For the first chapter of Mann, his four part self-portrait series, Veno returned to his childhood home in Norway to photograph himself playing the games of his infancy: set within dark, haunting landscapes, Veno, often naked, looks pale and powerless. ❋ Kate Kellaway (2010)