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ArtLex

Art Lex: Self Portraits

For Students 9th - 10th
From the on-line art lexicon resource ArtLex, this is the definition of the term self-portrait with numerous examples of self-portraits from art history.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Van Gogh's Self Portraits

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will examine Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits and letters to better understand the artist's life story and personality. They will paint two Van Gogh-style self-portraits to show two parts of their own personality and write a...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.
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Other

Silicon Valley Art Museum: Put Yourself on a Stamp: A Self Portrait Lesson [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Silicon Valley Art Museum presents this printable pdf art activity caled "Put Yourself on a Stamp: A Self-Portrait Lesson", in which you are guided through a creative activity with discussion.
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Musee D'orsay: Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the post-impressionist painting "Self-Portrait" by Vincent Van Gogh.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Suminagashi Self Portrait

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, young scholars learn about the Japanese technique of suminagashi by viewing a podcast and then using the technique to create a self portrait. Podcast is linked in the lesson plan. [9:49]
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Drawing [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. They will create their own digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait and then write a poem to describe...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Kirchner, Self Portrait as a Soldier

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the tragic life of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and view his artwork. This essay explores what influenced his masterpiece "Self-Portrait as a Soldier".
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portraits

For Students 9th - 10th
Displays a representative collection of self-portraits by van Gogh for the purposes of comparing and contrasting. Includes a short note on van Gogh's unique and intense style. Excellent site for exploring the changes in van Gogh's...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Grid Self Portrait

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan explores how Chuck Close uses photography and a mathematical grid to create his large portraits. Hands-on activities encourage students to create using the grid, during which they will learn about variation, repetition,...
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Other

Silicon Valley Art Museum: All About Me: Self Portrait Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Silicon Valley Art Museum presents this printable pdf activity "All about Me: Self-Portrait Lesson", which guides students through the creation of their own self-portrait with a little bit of art history mixed in.
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Other

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Looking at Art: Rembrandt Self Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this is a learning exercise called Looking at Art which deals with the theme of portraits using the example of Rembrandt's self-portrait, 1629.
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The National Gallery (UK)

The National Gallery: Self Portrait of Rembrandt

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the National Gallery's tribute "Encounters with Rembrandt" at its Rembrandt 400 online exhibition, this site focuses on Rembrandt's self portrait and is featured alongside two other self portraits by Lievens and Flinck who...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Louise Nevelson Self Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to Wendy Wick Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, as she discusses the self-portrait of Louise Nevelson.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Modern Collection: Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait, 1887

For Students 9th - 10th
Click to enlarge Van Gogh's self-portrait from 1886-87, and read the paragraph of text explaining his methods.
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Other

Silicon Valley Art Museum: New Clothes: Self Portrait Lesson With Crayon Rubbing

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Silicon Valley Art Museum presents this printable pdf activity "New Clothes: Self-Portrait Lesson with Crayon Rubbing" which teaches the technique of making rubbings.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Closer Look at Value: Self Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan that utilizes Photoshop to teach students about proportion and the grid drawing technique in order to create self-portrait drawings.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Self Portraits: "I Come From" Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant Mentor and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox are used as mentor texts to help students realize what are important in the characters' lives and in their own...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: I've Just Seen a Face Portraits Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This website contains a lesson plan in which students attempt to analyze different types of portraits for better understanding. It contains 6 different lessons in which students look at examples of portraits of children, important...
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Goshen College

Art Department: Self Portrait Montage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Take the pressure off your students of drawing the human face. With this lesson create a self-portrait with collage materials.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Self Portrait

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help students create self-portraits and autobiographies.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portraiture 101 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...

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