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Famous Portraits showing the Progression of Art

Which one of these looks like a wrestler?
Hint: Who has the sore ear? Wrestlers are encouraged to wear headgear. But maybe the wrestler was DeKooning’s Woman. She looks a little beat up, perhaps having battled to the final round of a long wrestling tournament.

 

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Leonardo
Mona Lisa  (1503)

Leonardo
Self Portrait
(1515)

Rembrandt
Self portrait (1659)

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Cezanne
Self Portrait  (1880)

Van Gogh
Self Portrait (1887)


Van Gogh
Self Portrait
with bandage (1889)

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Modigliani
Jeane Hebuterne (1918)

Matisse
Purple Robe (1937)

Frida Kahlo
Self Portrait (1938)

Mona Lisa Leonardo self portrait  

Picasso
Weeping Woman
(1937)

Willem deKooning
Woman I  (1951)

 


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