I consequently started painting my logo, a stylized self-portrait based on the shape of my own skull. |
Rembrandt is chiefly responsible for transforming the self-portrait as an artistically innovative form. |
This is claimed to be the first exhibition ever to show how the self-portrait developed. |
In a self-portrait we see the artist's chief creation, him or herself. |
It also serves as a symbolic self-portrait of the artist within these systems. |
The painting was, after all, undertaken as a gift to send to Arles in exchange for a self-portrait by van Gogh. |