Self-cognition of the Female Artist

Comparison Between Self-Portrait (1790) by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Self-Portrait (1980) by Alice Neel

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211120.040How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Female artist; Self-portrait; Inner values; Vigée Le Brun; Alice Neel

Abstract

By comparing a self-portrait (1790) by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and a self-portrait (1980) by Alice Neel, the paper tries to analyze how these two portrait artists demonstrate their self-cognition in their own self-portraits. By means of comparison, such as clothing, character’s posture and facial expression, and backdrop of the painting, Vigée Le Brun’s work emphasizes her identity as a respectable painter by showing her work for the queen, while Alice Neel focuses on the inner emotion as a female artist. Although Alice Neel’s painting style is relatively abstract, she dares to show the real image of her subjects, even if it is ugly in the eyes of the public.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - YueYi Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/29
TI  - Self-cognition of the Female Artist
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 215
EP  - 218
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211120.040
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.040
ID  - Wang2021
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