I Me Mine 2009 Portraits with different expressions

Rembrandt Etching 1631

Rembrandt Self Portraits

Self-portrait in a cap, with eyes wide open, etching print, 1630.

I Me Mine - Portraits That Change through time

Rembrandt Van Rijn 1606 - 1669
Dutch Painter famous for self portraits and portraits of others

Self Porait 1629 (age 23)

self portrait 1634 age 28

Self Portrait aged 34

Self Portrait 1661 age 55

Self Portrait 1669 aged 63

Links for Rembrandt

http://www.rembrandtpainting.net

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2005/rembrandt/flash/index.shtm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

I Me Mine GCSE 2009 - Portraits From Personal Objects

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognisable likeness of the portrait subject.

Vertemnus 1591

The Librarian - 1566

Links for more Arcimbaldo

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/arcimbol/index.html

http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/arcimboldo01biography.html (very good pictures)

Chris Peters Vanitas

wonderful painter of Vanitas / themed still life paintings. Skulls as barriers that protect
his website http://www.chrispeters.com/
direct link to the vanitas paintings http://www.chrispeters.com/vanitas_still_life_paintings.htm

Lorraine Shemesh Swimming Pool Paintings

Water as a barrier
http://www.lorraineshemesh.com/

Trees as barriers

Trees as barriers, views through.

Craig Stephens Bridges and Dams

http://craigstephens.blogspot.com/

Craig Stephens is a practicing Artist and Art teacher in California. Amazingly as well as holding down a full time job he is producing a painting a day and exhibiting them on his Blog

A Dam as a barrier holding back the water

A bridge as a barrier