Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Rebirth of Reason

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait
Jack Vettriano

Self-Portrait of the artist, the smoker. Grand.

This is one of the best self-portraits I've ever encountered. Its simply egotistical. The composition is simple, except for the artist himself. He is brightly lit, the center of it all. His clothes, handsome, slightly wrinkled, unselfconscious. He is not afraid to hold the viewers gaze -- facing the world. Im thinking: "The inanimate man in the painting, is he judging me as much as Im evaluating him, his art?" Oh yes -- arrogance. And that cigarette, well that just says it all -- positively defiant.

Marvelous.

(Added by Marnee on 10/07, 2:56pm)

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