BIG IDEA:
Students will create a self-portrait sculpture with the use of mixed media material.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What is the significance of creating a self portrait and how does it vary from one person to the next in meaning?
KEY KNOWLEDGE: You will review and know:
What is a portrait?
A self-portrait is a drawing, painting or sculpture created by an artist featuring him or herself as the subject. You would think they have been around forever, but they really only became an important artistic tradition since the Early Renaissance (mid 1400’s) when high quality mirrors became available and relatively cheap.
Why do people create self-portraits?
It may have started when artists were trying to develop their art and would use their own reflections as models because real models were expensive. However, soon after the practice began, artists started to create personal stories around their self-portraits. They explored the mysteries beneath the art and they put messages into their drawings, painting and sculpture that enlightened the viewed to the deeper personalities of the artist.
So what's the point?
The point of the self-portrait is to understand the artist in a way that is different, and in a sense, more comprehensive than any other form. It’s not looking at a photograph or even a mirror image it’s the picture of a person’s self-identity as they understand it themselves. So by exploring a self-portrait, we explore what we think ourselves.
YOU WILL DO :
* Discover and create placement of facial features
* Shading techniques
* Create and write a description about you
* Use mixed media to "layer"
* Reflect on artwork after process
Through a series of self portraits artists discover who it is they are through exploration of ideas, process, discovery, trial and error, evaluation and reflection.
Students will create a self-portrait sculpture with the use of mixed media material.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What is the significance of creating a self portrait and how does it vary from one person to the next in meaning?
KEY KNOWLEDGE: You will review and know:
What is a portrait?
A self-portrait is a drawing, painting or sculpture created by an artist featuring him or herself as the subject. You would think they have been around forever, but they really only became an important artistic tradition since the Early Renaissance (mid 1400’s) when high quality mirrors became available and relatively cheap.
Why do people create self-portraits?
It may have started when artists were trying to develop their art and would use their own reflections as models because real models were expensive. However, soon after the practice began, artists started to create personal stories around their self-portraits. They explored the mysteries beneath the art and they put messages into their drawings, painting and sculpture that enlightened the viewed to the deeper personalities of the artist.
So what's the point?
The point of the self-portrait is to understand the artist in a way that is different, and in a sense, more comprehensive than any other form. It’s not looking at a photograph or even a mirror image it’s the picture of a person’s self-identity as they understand it themselves. So by exploring a self-portrait, we explore what we think ourselves.
YOU WILL DO :
* Discover and create placement of facial features
* Shading techniques
* Create and write a description about you
* Use mixed media to "layer"
* Reflect on artwork after process
Through a series of self portraits artists discover who it is they are through exploration of ideas, process, discovery, trial and error, evaluation and reflection.
REMBRANDT: Over a 40 year career, used his own reflection to tell his own story. He was interested in learning about his own personality, moodiness and silliness. He created a life story by chronicling not only what he looked like through the years but also his frame of mind.
VAN GOGH: In a short amount of 2 difficult years he created over thirty self-portraits viewing himself as a solitary, confused, disturbed and tranquil young man who is deeply unhappy and saddened. Van Gogh’s portraits seem to be a way for a damaged soul to look for some meaning and understanding but not finding anything rather than pain and suffering. KAHLO: Suffered a great deal of physical and emotional hardships. She masked her bodily deformities with long flowing dresses and gaudy jewelry and assumed a rigid persona to keep people at a distance and yet her self-portraits reveal a different kind of personality. We see her as a woman who reveals the anguish and complexities of her personal struggles and she throws open the window of her soul. |
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