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Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]
For this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Closer Look at Value: Self Portraits
Lesson plan that utilizes Photoshop to teach students about proportion and the grid drawing technique in order to create self-portrait drawings.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Drawing [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, learners will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Draw a Portrait
In addition to providing suggestions for drawing the perfect portrait, Kids at Art looks at Leonardo da Vinci and his ideas about depicting the human figure.
Goshen College
Art Department: Self Portrait Montage
Take the pressure off your students of drawing the human face. With this lesson create a self-portrait with collage materials.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraiture 101 [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Stuart Davis
Wendy Wick Reaves,a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discusses the pencil drawing by Stuart Davis and explains how he achieves the look of his self-portrait.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings
Portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery can be seen and understood with excellent gallery notes that also survey the history of portraiture in American art leading up to the modern period.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
In this activity, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
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Rembrandt Van Rijn: Life, Paintings, Etchings, Drawings, and Self Portraits
A reference point for study of Rembrandt.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, & Things
Sculptor and printmaker, she is among the most significant artists of her generation. This exhibition showcases the scope of Smith through such topics as anatomy, self-portraiture, nature, and female iconography.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait (Recto)
An image of "Self-Portrait (recto)", created by Jacopo Pontormo in 1525 (Red chalk, 284 x 202 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait
An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1526-28 (Red chalk, 155 x 107 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait
An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Albrecht Durer in 1521 (Coloured pen drawing, 127 x 117 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait as the Man of Sorrows
An image of "Self-Portrait as the Man of Sorrows", created by Albrecht Durer in 1522 (Drawing with lead pencil on blue-green primed paper, 408 x 290 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait
An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Asmus Jakob Carstens in 1784 (Pencil drawing, 332 x 208 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait With Cap
An image of "Self-Portrait with Cap", created by Eugene Delacroix in 1832 (Drawing, 193 x 127 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait
An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Paul Gavarni in 1842 (Drawing).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait With a Bandage
An image of "Self-Portrait with a Bandage", created by Albrecht Durer from 1491-92 (Pen drawing on paper, back side, 204 x 208 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait
An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Hendrick Goltzius from 1592-94 (Drawing).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait
An image of "Self-portrait", created by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, c. 1740 (Drawing).
New York Times
New York Times: Vincent Van Gogh: A Draftsman's Fist
Michael Kimmelman, art critic for the New York Times, narrates a walk-through slideshow of an exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. Wonderful examples of Van Gogh's landscapes and...