Product Description
A painter studying his own face, in candy colours. The Neoclassical Pop Art take sweeps candy colour through the self-portrait, a new oil about a painter looking at himself. The swirling ground turns green and pink while the eyes stay serious.
Candy colour defines “The Shadow Self-Portrait”, a new oil that takes Vincent van Gogh's “Self-Portrait” (1889, the Musée d'Orsay, Paris) into Neoclassical Pop Art. Introspection becomes a portrait you live with.
Like the Old Masters, Van Gogh painted himself as a model using a mirror. His in-depth self-observation and self-study generated over forty-three self-portraits, paintings, or drawings in ten years.
Thus he wrote to his sister: "I am looking for a deeper likeness than that obtained by a photographer." And later to his brother: "People say, and I am willing to believe it, that it is hard to know yourself. But it is not easy to paint yourself, either. The portraits painted by Rembrandt are more than a view of nature, they are more like a revelation".
Art Historians debate whether this is the last Self Portrait Van Gogh created following his admission to hospital after mutilating his ear and before his tragic death.
Van Gogh sent the painting to his brother, the art dealer Theo, with a letter saying: "I hope you will notice that my facial expressions have become much calmer, although my eyes have the same insecure look as before, or so it appears to me."
Unlike the original therapeutic green color, the neoclassical pop art artwork takes the liberty to shine out a pop of colors with a double image representing the shadow that shadowed Van Gogh's self-perception.
Self-examination, rendered in Pop.
A collectible original artwork. Created by the Neoclassical Pop Art studio as an original contemporary painting. A collectible statement piece where the old masters meet pop culture, made for true art lovers.
- Creator : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Year of Creation : 2018
- Dimensions : Available in 4 sizes, from 16"x24" (41x61 cm) to 48"x72" (122x183 cm), or a custom size on request
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Movement & Style : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Hand-painted in oil on stretched canvas
