My Modern Met Home Artfamous Face Paintings My Modern Met. While such eerie iconography was not typical of Post-Impressionism artists had been incorporating skulls and other symbols of mortality. Emma Taggart is a Contributing Writer at My Modern Met.
Featuring only a stack of human skulls as its subject this piece offers an ominous alternative to the artists more traditional still life paintings of fruits and bottles. These self-portraits are so artistic and you never actually see the photographers face. Alcalas creative mind is certainly serving him well.
Someone had posted a photo of Bill Murray on Reddit and I thought that the angle of the face and his facial expression greatly resembled George Washingtons portrait to an uncanny degree.
Today the departments holdings comprise more than 12000 works of art across a broad range of media from 1900 to the present. My Modern Met Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanityfrom the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening. Follow us out there. The Met has collected and exhibited work by living artists since its founding in 1870.