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Focuses on paintings Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter. Reputation of the painter has never been secure; Collection of the painter's works in the realm of metaphysics; Lack of sensitivity in his paintings; Emphasis on ideas rather than techniques; Presence of the self-portraits of the painter which are strange and creepy representations of de Chirico in various historical costumes; Evocations of past art; Views that de Chirico is as much a flop as art history's magician-in-residence as he is at being a great contemporary painter.

The article discusses the American artists' reasons for making their self-portrait paintings. Cecilia Beaux painted her self-portrait to fulfill a membership requirement for the National Academy of Design while Emmanuel Leutze's work was done to advertise the artist as a man of reserve and dignity. On the other hand Henry Inman demonstrated how he worked while William Merritt Chase painted to create a means to exhibit style. John La Farge is an expert on painting in his own likeness.

Focuses on a daughter who is learning to draw. Use of a lipstick by the child to draw herself; Description of her father in one of her drawings; Inclusion of birds in a drawing which she called "School."