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OCR: Let's laak at these selt -portraits ncent Perhaps he feeds that mythological status that we ve endowed him with For exam ple in this self- portrait of the artist, look- ing ta all the world as 8 sart af Buddhist Bonze He wanted to present himself as visionary exalted the eternal godhead He was profoundly attracted t Japanese art, and in way he wanted to identify him self with that idealized notion fa Japanese confraternity f craftspeople. And sense he portrays himself in that way But nevertheless, there still is an element af the mystical union some mystical think- ing that pervades this portrait as well. ofVincent exarm alted notior ananese