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Rembrandt - Drawing at a Window
Etching, drypoint, and burin
©The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905
diary of self-portraits- an autobiography in art that is equal in quality to those found in literature. His "Etching by the Window" (1648) is exemplary of this, as it depicts a lonely man communicating with himself through painting.
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Introduction and Book 1, Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This work marks the first popular autobiography in Europe. He discusses unsavory, sometimes shameful experiences of his life. Through doing this, he justifies the inherent goodness of himself, flaws included- an idea contrary to that of the popular churches. This work is significant in that it illustrates the principles of the enlightenment and romantic era pertaining to self-expression.
http:// www.rousseauonline.ch/Text/les-confessions-de-jj-rousseau.php. -
"Eroica" - Ludwig van Beethoven
This is an excerpt from Beethoven's symphony "Eroica. This piece embodies the trandistion between classical and romantic musical styles. It depicts Beethoven's personal heroism in overcoming deafness. think this piece is significant in that it denotes self-expression through music - an increasingly popular artistic venture in the romantic era in Europe.
http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/ detail.php? id=&template=werkseite_digitales_archiv_en&_eid=&_ug=&_werkid=55&_mid=Works -
Preface: Human All Too Human - Friedrich Nietzsche
http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB/MA-I-[Titel]This document provides insight into the relationship between self-expression through art and societal values. Perhaps Nietzsche’s idea that there is now an overflow of religious sentiment into art is one of the reason’s why self-expression through art Europe expanded and intensified from the 17th to 20th century.
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Self Portrait (Yo) - Pablo Picasso
This work takes the genre of the self-portrait to a new, more emotional level. His work is less bound by technique, more experimental, and more self-obsessed. Alongside Van Gogh and other artists, Picasso takes the self-portrait into the modern era.
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Two figures in tetrahedron - Rudolph Laban
http://www.dance-archives.ac.uk/media/754
One of the pioneers of expressionist dance was choreographer Rudolph Laban. Dance to him is foremost an expression of emotional impulses that consequentially creates movement. The cited document, Two Figures in Tetrahedron is a example of one of Rudolph Laban’s dance notations. He formulated a way of transcribing movement onto paper. This illustrates how self-expression has come to take on new mediums in the modern age.
