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‘They get more confrontational’: A painter’s self-portraits capture life, and art, with cerebral palsy through the years | News Channel 3-12

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By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — Lucy Jones painted her first nude self-portrait at 50. She was in New York with her husband Peter Leach, she said, when he “took a picture of my backside. I thought, ‘Well I don’t look too bad from the back, so maybe I’ll paint it!’” Jones is sitting on a wooden chair the middle of a white-washed gallery space, surrounded by a collection of her own works spanning decades for the opening of a new self-portraiture…

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By Sebastian Hamel Have you ever taken a "selfie"? That is, pointed the camera at yourself and snapped a photo? Such a shot is called a "self-portrait" in the language of art, and the idea behind it is very old: Hundreds of years ago, artists portrayed themselves – not in a photograph, of course, but as paintings. At the Grafschaft Bentheim Art Association in Neuenhaus, children and young people recently had the opportunity to create the perfect…

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KEYT broke the news in on Monday, July 14, 2025.
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