How to Use self-portrait in a Sentence

self-portrait

noun

• That’s a self-portrait that has long been fatuous in the extreme.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The artwork featured a drawing of the mom of two and a self-portrait of Stormi.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• This self-portrait showed up at a flea market in Vanves, a suburb of Paris, in 2010.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• As an artist, Kusama also uses the starchy vegetable as a stand-in for self-portraits.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
• Her first of many self-portraits was completed that first year.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2023
• Tuck the hand inside, as Ceruti also did in his own self-portrait as a Catholic pilgrim, painted around the same time.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• On the cover is a self-portrait of Wolfe looking possessed, with slots of empty white where her pupils should be.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
• Painted on a used canvas, the self-portrait shows Cornish in his younger years with a thoughtful gaze.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• And she is credited with painting the first nude self-portrait by a woman.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• In other words, Freud’s portrait of his son includes a self-portrait.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• The class was called The Art of Self Portraiture and went into detail about how to take pro-worthy self-portraits.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2023
• There will also be pop-up events and a self-portrait studio as part of the festivities.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• While there are self-portraits, there’s also more abstract paintings in your work.
  — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Behind her was an oil painting of a young woman in tears, a self-portrait by her dinner partner, the artist Inès Longevial, 32.
  — Julia Sherman, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• One of the self-portraits on view is by Anya Paintsil, a contemporary artist who draws on her Welsh and Ghanaian heritage.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
• And there’s more: Since her self-portrait assemblage is suspended in space, its back is as visible as the front.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The photo was taken in 2018 and is a self-portrait of Escobedo wearing the sombrero of his grandfather, Miguel López.
  — Alejandro MacIel, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Dealing with all of this while painting an unflattering self-portrait in the form of a TV show was grueling.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• And still, for Mandelbaum, the Nazi as much as the Jew was a possible avatar — because every drawing was a self-portrait, and art could be nothing else.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• There’s a watercolor of a couple arguing in a restaurant in rich reds and greens, line drawings of friends and people on the beach, and two self-portraits.
  — Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• Have your child outline a self-portrait on heavy paper, then fill in the outline with the paper scraps for a colorful mosaic.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2023
• According to Garage, 12 of her 19 studio album covers are her own paintings — most of which are self-portraits.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• One of Torres’ favorite parts of the classes is the photo critiques, where each student presents their work, oftentimes self-portraits, to their peers.
  — Jasely Molina, Parents, 2 July 2024
• In her self-portrait, Weems sits on her bed in a dark negligee, her image focalized through the round mirror on her dressing table.
  — Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2023
• Subjects narrow to his wild garden and terrace, the interiors of his modest homes, his and his wife’s bedroom and bath, and to his self-portraits.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Kirchner’s self-portrait is more comical, with the artist smiling wrily like a teen movie delinquent.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2024
• In his self-portrait, based on a late-16th century painting of Henry V, Taylor is shown in profile in a plush robe and a bejeweled chain.
  — Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• On Sunday at the Tour de France 2023, a spectator decided to use a smartphone to take a self-portrait photo alongside the riders.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• In a self-portrait, Mr. Botero depicted himself as a painter dressed in full bullfighting regalia.
  — Tim Johnson, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Her self-portrait, the only piece to have ever been exhibited publicly, was lost in a 1937 apartment fire that killed the artist and her older, married lover.
  — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024