Past Portraits: Reimagined

Lesson Plan

Description

Students will investigate a self-portrait or portrait created before they were born. Students will design and recreate a portrait inspired and informed by their art research.

Level

Advanced

Areas of Study

Identity Portrait Mixed Media Color Value Proportion Line

Collections

Investigations: Ways of Seeing

Lesson Objectives

Students will investigate a variety of self-portrait and portrait artworks created before they were born.

Students will study one artist to make an informed interpretation and analysis of their artwork.

Students will consider the ways self-portraits can impact people’s lives.

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Teaching Strategies

Provide students with resources to select and investigate a variety of artists’ self-portraits and portrait artworks.
Support students’ investigations as they interpret and analyze a self-portrait/portrait artwork of their choice.
Lead a discussion about the ways self-portraits/portraits can impact people’s lives.
Demonstrate how to draw a portrait and apply proportions.

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National Standards

Create

Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images,materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

VA:Cr2.2.IIIa

Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people's lives.

VA:Cr2.3.IIIa

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

1 hour and 30 minutes

Demonstration Time

1 hour and 30 minutes

Student Studio Time

6 hours

Supplies and Materials

Various wet media
Various dry media
8" x 10" to 18” x 24" mixed-media paper
Drawing board
1" Artist’s tape
Pencil and eraser

National Standards

Create

Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images,materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

VA:Cr2.2.IIIa

Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people's lives.

VA:Cr2.3.IIIa

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Steps

Observe and Discuss

Discover and observe various portrait and self-portrait artworks made before the present era. Discuss the purposes behind portrait artworks, and analyze these in small groups. Explore the ways visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, and/or empowers people’s lives.

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