Who is the author of a portrait?

[mikhael]

Сообщение от artcol

In the self-portrait is always a kind of rashristannost (emancipation) in the interpretation of the image. What we have here and see.

Hmm, some understand: more arbitrary, anarchic image transfer; less rigor. Perhaps you are right ...

Here's another self-portraits of the artist (the second so obviously "a Rembrandt"):

Сообщение от fabosch

Here's an interesting question. It is clear that it is hardly possible to formulate exactly what distinguishes the self-portrait from the portrait (in a typical or average case). But it seems to me that any symptoms can probably try to indicate. But when he tried - and immediately stopped. Well, not serious to speak about intimacy or facial expression, however, indeed, in most cases, immediately recognizable self-portrait

Well, that is, discerning viewer intuitively it is seen in certain difficult to explain the grounds of ...

Dear fabosch, and yet at the same time you can ask? If it is no secret that over the izobrazheie on your avatar? Something reminded Toulouse Lautrec, but this is clearly not it. Rudakov not it? .. (Author, I mean ) Thanks.