Many painters choose to represent themselves in unexpected ways. In The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo paints herself twice to represent her dual heritage. Salvador Dalí reduces his likeness to a face made of just skin and his trademark mustache in Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon. Jean-Michel Basquiat, who wanted to make “paintings that look as if they were made by a child,” layered flat colors and basic shapes to simplify the human form in his self-portrait.