‘They get more confrontational’: A painter’s self-portraits capture life, and art, with cerebral palsy through the years | News Channel 3-12
2 Articles
2 Articles
‘They get more confrontational’: A painter’s self-portraits capture life, and art, with cerebral palsy through the years | News Channel 3-12
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…
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…
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 100% of the sources are Center
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium