Abstract

In the last century the history of the artist’s self-portrait has taken on a double practical-theoretical dimension, osmotic and dialoguing, not in contrast with his original sense: one expressed through static forms (drawings, paintings, photography, sculptures) the other one is dynamic and kinetic when the artists is represented in movement with gestures, faces expressions, the sound of his voice. All these details of the artistic making contribute to show the artists to the observer. The self-images, in static or movement forms, are valid, interchangeable, in effective artistic competition. They are capable to demonstrate increasingly complex and articulated forms of documentary and memorial sphere, in a potentially seamless creative and interpretative kaleidoscope. This new and mixed media artistic form, is capable to immortalize the existence of an individual (the artist) in a multidimensional encyclopedia of the self. A veritable mine of sources for the historian of art and portraiture of the future. This is what we could define as an expanded form of self-portrait