{"id":73116,"date":"2022-07-21T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=73116"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:34:57","slug":"qotd-the-history-of-the-self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/qotd-the-history-of-the-self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The history of the self-portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Consider the history of the self-portrait. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-portrait\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wiki summary<\/a> is interesting (and unintentionally hilarious. They have a whole section on women artists, because of course they do, which starts thusly: &#8220;Women artists are notable producers of self-portraits.&#8221; Gee, ya think? That has to be my favorite Alanis-level irony, that the SJWs&#8217; constant attempts to pump up their favorite &#8220;underrepresented groups&#8221; always end up confirming everything we Deplorables say about those groups). Artists have inserted &#8220;themselves&#8221; into their works from antiquity, it seems, but as minor background figures. The self-portrait as a standalone work of art \u2014 that is, as a piece of art to be appreciated strictly on its own technical merits \u2014 was pioneered, as far as we know, by van Eyck.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2022\/04\/18\/as-i-can\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;As I Can&#8221;, <em>Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2022-04-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the history of the self-portrait. The Wiki summary is interesting (and unintentionally hilarious. They have a whole section on women artists, because of course they do, which starts thusly: &#8220;Women artists are notable producers of self-portraits.&#8221; Gee, ya think? That has to be my favorite Alanis-level irony, that the SJWs&#8217; constant attempts to pump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,41],"tags":[102,703,1462,43],"class_list":["post-73116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-quotations","tag-art","tag-middleages","tag-severian","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-j1i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75102,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73116\/revisions\/75102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}