My favorite project to do with students each year is the surrealist self-portrait. In this unit of study, we practice skills in realistic portraiture — understanding face proportions, drawing facial ...

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at auction after selling for $54.7 million. Kahlo’s surrealist self portrait, which was sold by ...

By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

The selfie is a smartphone-produced version of the self-portrait, which has been a staple of art and photography history since artists first began seeing examining their own images in the mirror. In ...