Liz Rideal opened by saying the self portraits in any collection were absolutely fascinating. They were about self publicity, developing the artist's own competence, style and branding. She ran an exhibition about 20 years ago at NPG about women's self portraits, and coaxed the NPG to increase the number of women portraits for this event, but since then, no more have been purchased!!! She was interested in the psychological penetration - essence of the person - deemed to be contentious - who they are and what they do. (This is exactly what I am trying to do with my SP).
Of the 1214 self portraits in the NPG collection, only 232 are female. (And of these 232, 49 are by Ottoline Morrell (socialite/photographer) and 42 by Ida Khan!). This leaves 141 female out of 1214!
Images shown were:
Mary Beale, 1665
Angelica Kauffman 1770
Ann Mary Newton1863
Mimi (Elizabeth, Lady) Butler 1869
Beu Martin 1899
Gwen John 1900
Edna Clarke Hall
Jessica Dismore 1929
Sylvia Pankhurst
Olive Edis 1910
Laura Knight 1910 - Pertinence of Red - refers to Van Dyke
Bess Norris 1900-10
Ethel Walker 1925
Eileen Agar 1927
Paule Vesaley
Painting self portraits is done when artists are trying to define self. Once achieved once, the artist may give up portraiture.
Big and Little Zink(risen)
Dorothy Wilding
Ithell Colquhoun
Oriel Ross 1928
Susie Cooper 1933
Madame Yovonde 1925 and 40
Lee Miller 1903 and 43
Gluck1942
Winifred Nicholson 1943
Gertrude Hermes 1949
Hepworth 1950
Ida Khan
Maggie Hambling
Maureen Paley
Liz Rideal
Helen Chadwick 1986
Jo Spence 1990
Ishbel Myerscough and Chantal Joffe 1991
Nancy Honey
Sarah Lucas 1997
Sam Taylor Wood
Tracey Emin
Celia Paul
Mary McCartney
Grace Law
Jane and Louise Wilson
Jackie and Joan Collings.
Self portraits are not always a the top of artists' came. Ambiguous.
Marsha Meskimmon - The Art of Reflection - book.
Women - over represented as objects, under-represented as self portraits (subjects). But the questions about this are still pertinent.
Who makes the images in a selfie/image saturated world? Who circulates them. How are they used and seen? The power of the object/subject.
Autographic turn - Vivian Sobshack Is Any Body Home? Live through, or In the body?
Mirror and present - How to articulate the experience of living in the body.
Auto-bio-graphical
Self - life - imagery/narrator
Auto- graphic Subject and Self.
Subject and object - entwined. This is how to reclaim the nude.
How to articulate the self as a subject Not sure who I am. This might tell me.
Joan Semmel - 1974 2nd wave feminism. Avoid the mirror. Look down at self. Self as subject and object.
Claude Cahun. Play out work of other women in their work.
Susan Hauptman 2000 Prima Donna Bitch.
How does self energy Mutuality of subject/object. As mask as much as a person.
Is self about one or in relation to other.
Author/artist collaborates with mirror. Psychology - mirror as other.
Article - Female Old Masters get their Day, The Sun, Telaf Maastricht - all about money.
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