#artistic identity

• Self-portrait — A portrait of an artist (painter, sculptor, photographer) created by themselves; a self-referential visual representation wherein the creator analyzes their own physical features and inner psychological state through their own aesthetic lens. In literature, the term denotes a detailed and often critical description or psychological analysis that a writer makes of their own person within an autobiographical work.
• To portray oneself — To create one's own self-portrait; to describe or represent oneself in a detailed manner within a work of art, an autobiographical text, or a critical discourse. On a psychological and analytical level, it reflects the structural reflexive action through which a creator transposes their own identity, character traits, and inner dynamics into a fixed conceptual format, offering the public an assumed self-referential perspective.
• To self-review — To write or create a review or critical analysis of one's own literary, artistic, or scientific work; to publicly, consciously, and self-referentially evaluate the value, structure, or impact of one's own creation. In cultural journalism and modern digital media, the act of self-reviewing is used either as an intentional exercise in self-irony and aesthetic reflexivity or as a masked or transparent self-promotion strategy to attract public attention.