Self-portrait Judith Leyster

"Self portrait" expresses that she is spread in her painter's work that it is really its passion, that she likes that.

She smiles, it is the first smiling feminine self-portrait, a mark of liberalism. She is relax.

She is dressed in a beautiful dress of time.

The colours are a little flat.It has was painted in 1630.

Now it is in Washington.

By Angelique B.

Judith Leyster

(Judith Leyster's work, Serenade)

Judith Jans Leyster was born in 1609 and died in 1660. She was a Dutch painter.

She painted still-life, quiet scenes of women at home, which were not a popular theme in Holland until the 1650s.

Much of her other work was similar in nature to that of many of her contemporaries, such as Hals, Steen . . .

In 1636, she married Jan Miense Molenaer, fascinated also by painting. They moved to Amsterdam for economic reasons and had five children.

In this period, found a woman's painter it was rare so she was famous !

By Angelique B.

Questions

1. Why was "Germs are everywhere" green ?

2. Why did Nancy Wilson love so much her shoes ?

3. Why did Giséle Freund choose to take only self-portraits ?

4. Why did Marc Jourdans choose to take old people ?

5. Why we can't see the face of Jan Saudek ? Is he ashamed ?

6. Why Kathryn Marx makes photographs in dandruff ?

7. Why did little girl fade ? Did she die ?

8. Why didn't old people smile ?

By Angelique B.